Not satisfied with just screwing people through pointless idiotic lawsuits the music industry has been trying to get ISPs around the world to block torrent sites – with The Pirate Bay being their principal target. the thinking being if they can con the ISPs into blocking them it will be a short step to getting them to block other sites the music industry has a hard-on for.
In Ireland several of the ISPs were sent letters requesting the blockage of The Pirate Bay an while UPC and BT Ireland refused lily-livered Eircom, the country’s largest ISP, bowed down to the industry lapdogs and began – as of today – to block the site.
According the the gang over at TorrentFreak people trying to access the site will see the following message, which I have copied from TorrentFreak’s post on the story (hope they don’t mind)
TorrentFreak can confirm that Eircom customers can no longer access The Pirate Bay and instead, are faced with this message when trying to access the site (body in plain text for clarity);
On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website ThePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.
eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.
The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.
eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.
eircom would like to reassure customers that:
* eircom will not monitor customer’s activities at any stage, nor will it place any monitoring equipment or software on its network in order to facilitate this block. * eircom will not provide personal details or any information relating to customers to any third party, including the record companies.
Way to Eircom.
note: the picture has absolutely nothing to do with the story other than to show that Ireland has some really beautiful women.
