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Irish ISP Agrees to Three-Strikes Policy for File-Sharers

By soulxtc

Eircom decides to landmark settlement to disconnect file-sharers in order to settle lawsuit brought against it by music labels EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner who accused it of not doing enough to combat copyright infringement by its subscribers. The record industry has won a landmark victory in Ireland after pressuring ISP Eircom to implement a "three-strikes-and-you're-out" policy targeting illegal file-sharing by its subscribers. The move is intended as a settlement of High Court proceedings brought against it by the four major record labels, EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner, who accused it of not doing enough to combat illegal file-sharing by its subscribers. Using an "independent" company to monitor Eircom's network for piracy, the record labels will provide the ISP with the IP addresses of users suspected of copyright infringement. Eircom has then agreed to commence a ?three-strikes-and-you?re-out? process in which it will do the following: Inform its broadband subscribers that the subscribers IP address has been detected infringing copyright Warn the subscriber that unless the infringement ceases the subscriber will be disconnected and In default of compliance by the subscriber with the warning it will disconnect the subscriber.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).