P2P filesharing sites will soon be nigh on unaccessible in Ireland: the country’s largest ISP, Eircom has just announced it will be banning P2P sites sharing pirated content, with other ISPs being asked to follow suit.
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Day two and the Pirate Bay trial has already hit stormy waters for the prosecution: it’s had to drop half of all charges against the men behind the P2P filesharing site. All the details on the most important internet court case of the decade after the jump.
The court case against Pirate Bay, the P2P filesharing site, will be liveblogged via Twitter when it begins later this month. Who says the piracy doesn’t push innovation?
The BBC would have to pay ISPs to deliver iPlayer traffic under the government’s new internet policy recommendations. Say bye bye to HD BBC iPlayer.
Late night on the town yesterday? Not to worry, we’ve got the perfect hangover cure for you: techie breakie. Eggs, sausage, beans and all the latest tech happenings you might have missed. Chow down after the jump!
Pirates might have let out a sigh of relief after the government said it wouldn’t force ISPs to disconnect pirates caught filesharing, but we now know why: it wants them on a government watch list instead.
BitTorrent pirates have just been given a helping hand by Google. It’s launched a new set of tools to check if your ISP is blocking traffic to your PC. In particular, it’ll sniff out ISPs that block P2P traffic. That means BitTorrent, the filesharing system of choice for pirates.
ISPs won’t be forced to disconnect music pirates, according to government Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy.
in an interview with The Times, the MP said the Government had scrapped the idea of making ISPs cut off suspect P2P pirates, which Westminster was mooting as late as 2008.