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MINISTER MARY HANAFIN’S office has told TheJournal.ie that legislation is NOT being rushed through tomorrow to enable judges to grant injunctions against Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
Yesterday, the Silicon Republic website published an article stating that:
The Government is believed to be rushing through a statutory instrument that will amend the existing Copyright Act and which will give judges the power to grant injunctions against ISPs in relation to copyright infringement cases.
Hanafin’s spokesperson said that they were confused as to why that was being reported that she had sanctioned this move for tomorrow. The spokesperson said that this is categorically not taking place tomorrow and they were unsure where the rumour came from.
However, the spokesperson said this legislation will have to be dealt with in the future. She added that a statement would be released in advance of the legislation being finalised, when it does occur. She said:
We don’t know where this came from. The full court judgement came through last October. We have to comply with that judgement. We are communicating constantly with the Department of Communications and the Attorney General.
There were fears that the statutory instrument could result in ISPs having to implement the ‘three strikes’ rule.
Record companies Warner Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music and EMI records agreed to a settlement with ISP Eircom in January 2009 to implement a ‘three strikes’ policy – this means illegal downloaders and filesharers would have their internet access cut off if it was proven they had committed copyright theft.
In the High Court last October, UPC successfully argued that the ‘three strikes’ rule was an agreement between Eircom and the labels and that other ISPs were not obliged by Irish law to monitor what their users do.
Mr Justice Peter Charleton ruled that laws to cut off users who illegally copy music files were not enforceable in Ireland, the Irish Times reported at the time.
Great news, more projects like this!
From a biodiversity and wildlife perspective, this is very welcome. However, to claim that this will go anyway towards mitigating the effects of climate change is quite frankly, a joke.
@Stephen O’Neill: You know the saying.. ‘Death by a million cuts’, well its the same in reverse. All these restorations add up. Just need more of them and to speed up dramatically.
@Stiofán Na Mara: literally need an Amazonian sized project to make a real difference
It’s a start at least, albeit a tiny one
That’s it, global warming sorted..
When will people wake up and realise that Global warming is a natural phenomenon and nothing is going to stop it. Only for Global warming we’d still be in the Ice Age, governments don’t want to hear this because they can’t tax a natural phenomenon. What was around at the beginning of time to melt the ice? It’s a load of bull and this is not the first time it has happened either . Every wind turbine that is sticking out of the ground has a bigger carbon footprint to make than the amount of carbon it saves in electricity generation in it’s lifespan. People need to do some serious research and stop listening to bull
With inflation at record highs and people can’t afford the basics needed to live we are putting 75,000 into a bog,
Some thing wrong with that picture??
In perspective, thats one salary,
that person is going to be very busy
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