The story so far: MAFIAA sponsored music industry sues giant ISP Eircom in Ireland for the ‘infringements/downloading’ of the ISP’s clients,
ISP puts on a brave face and tells scumbags “see you in court”,
said MAFIAA scumbags have very deep pockets so they throw everything they have at the ISP and threaten to make the ISP install DPI equipment on their network if they lose.
Eircom lose their nerve and fold like a bad hand at poker, instead agreeing to disconnect their subscribers on the flawed information supplied by the music industry (2)and in the process becoming the only ISP in the world to totally pull down their pants and assume the position for the music industry, putting the music industries interests much higher than their own customers.
Major problem (as reported on TF): Eircom supplied its customers (about a quarter million of them) with easily crackable/hackable routers just around a year back, so now anybody with 5 minutes of Googling knowledge can piggy back on hundreds of thousands of Eircom’s customer’s wireless and download whatever they want… if this downloading gets spotted by the music industries’ goons, the original downloader gets off scot free BUT the original subscriber/owner of the wireless account gets disconnected.
Being fully aware of this problem, if subscribers call Eircom and complain saying they have no idea what is downloading and they most probably have been a victim of someone piggy backing on their wireless… Eircom will have little choice but to give the customer her net access again.
Also keep in mind that Eircom does not want to disconnect their own clients, every disconnection means one lost account and the revenue that comes from that account.
For the more political readers out there, this is a lot like Egypt saying it absolutely hates the violence on the Gaza strip, but still steadily supplies arms to Hamas via tunnels that have an opening on Egyptian soil.
While it may have seemed like a huge victory for the music industry to make a massive ISP bend to its wishes, in the end the music industry is still depending on its outdated business practices so they are still screwed and there’s no silver lining to their dark cloud anywhere near.
Which in a way is a kind of its own poetic justice… dark clouds for their (evil) black hearts.
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