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Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you really need to know with your morning coffee.
1. #MICHAELA HARTE: Police in Mauritius are following a definite line of inquiry in the investigation into the death of Michaela Harte, who was strangled yesterday in the bathroom of the hotel where she was on honeymoon with her husband, the Down footballer John McAreavey. The officer heading up the investigation told TheJournal.ie that a list of suspects have been identified – and McAreavey is not among them. He said he expected the case to be wrapped up by this afternoon.
2. #GAS LEAK: The woman who died as a result of a suspected gas leak at a Kinsale hotel saw a doctor just hours before her body was discovered, it has been reported. The doctor that attended to Miriam Reidy is understood to have prescribed tablets for a stomach bug, reports the Irish Examiner.
3. #COWEN: Taoiseach Brian Cowen is due to make a full statement to the Dail tomorrow on his meetings with Sean Fitzpatrick, following his denial that there was any “hidden or secret agenda” to their discussions. Rumours of a heave have again resurfaced in the Fianna Fail party, as the Labour Party’s Joan Burton accused him yesterday of misleading the Dail.
4. #DRUMM: David Drumm is denying some aspects of Sean Fitzpatrick’s account of what took place at Anglo in the months before the bank guarantee, describing it as “bullshit”. Contacted in Boston by Simon Carswell of the Irish Times, he said Fitzpatrick’s characterisation of his role as back-seat had no bearing on reality. “He was all over it”.
5. #LIMERICK: The suspects in the double killings that took place in Limerick at the weekend have been caught on CCTV, gardaí believe. Yesterday, seven people were arrested in connection with the investigation into the deaths of Des Kelly and Breda Waters.
6. #SWINE FLU: Good news if you’re suffering a bout of the swine flu: battling the illness successfully can leave you with super-immunity against flu-type illnesses in the future, researchers believe.
7. #SARAH PALIN: Sarah Palin’s hopes of being the Republican party nominee to take on Barack Obama have been dashed as she faces severe criticism over her targetting of Gabrielle Giffords.
8. #WINKLEVOSS TWINS: The Winklevoss twins are to gamble a $65 million settlement they made with Facebook following a legal battle over who came up with the idea for the site – a battle documented in the film, the Social Network – in an effort to get more money, the BBC reports.
9.#MICHAEL DOUGLAS: Good news – in a television interview to be aired in the US next week, Michael Douglas says he has beaten late-stage cancer and is confident of making a full recovery.
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Glad I don’t know anything about utorrent, vpn and peer blocker.
@B9xiRspG: I also don’t know what Usenet is, it might be safer than torrents but I don’t know anything.
@purple rain: I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is.
@Drew P. Baulsach: neither do the banks
@Ian Shannon: brilliant comment.
@Drew P. Baulsach: brilliant
Stop ripping people off and they won’t pirate. Simple.
Greatest things that have encouraged people not to pirate have been Netflix and Spotify. All they had to do was provide entertainment for a reasonable amount instead of at an absurd mark up and suddenly people were more than happy to pay for it.
Meanwhile I’m gonna continue my practice of paying for stuff that’s reasonably priced but streaming stuff I’d never switch to Sky (and have to buy a satellite dish for) in a million years coz they hold it ransom on Atlantic.
Also; who in the ever-loving still downloads. Stream away!!!
@Bryan Kelly:
download a movie and in two years time buy the dvd for 3 euro……..conscience sorted.
@Bryan Kelly: You could add Steam for gaming to that list as well. There is certainly a point of price and convenience where most people will pay rather than torrent.
@Bryan Kelly: Don’t know why anyone would stream tbh, you need fibre optic to stream decent quality, amaze me people stream crap quality content and then buy 4K TVs to stream it on lol
@Bryan Kelly: well said
@Philip Mckenna: Get onto your TD about that high speed they promised the whole country and have now pushed back a couple decades.
No problem up here.
4K TV? Oooh look at me the millionaire!
@Philip Mckenna: ive a bog standard 100 mb connection and stream in 1080p perfectly so not sure what you mean
@Rochelle: Steam right? You’ve got EA releasing games where you don’t even get the full game and have to pay extra for it as DLC. Or remember that whole No Man’s Sky scam? And they wonder why sales are down…
You wouldn’t steal a car. True, but if I could download one…
@Dave Malone: 3D printing?
@Fake Avast: They’re also replicating guitars (and everything else). Gladly a few people here were caught by sub standard materials and tradesmanship. €2500 guitar for €250 euro delivered. Alarm bells!
It’s a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark.
@Professor Goodfeels: and a victimless crime is??? Not a crime.
@Tom Phelan: yawn
@Fake Avast: or he’s quoting The Simpsons
Insurance Companies have been streaming the entire population for years…
@Tomas: Thats allowed in ireland
Excellent article Rónàn. I’m still none the wiser if I’m breaking the law, but it appears Ray Foley is talking bollox. Nothing new there.
Can i still be a priest
Beats paying the ridiculous cinema prices
Mad what can be achieved on the line today
So the article says ‘without permission or without paying’ How do I know if I have permission? I once went through a no unauthorised entry sign…got stopped and told the security guard that I got authorised by my mother (sitting in the seat beside me). So who do I get authorised by and how do I know they are actually the person to grant authority? As regards paying….so my payment to help run a website I download a movie from….that is payment, right?
Anyone else think this article could have been shortened? A bit repetitive.
As for IPTV (get on it)… Guilty!!!!
Very good article
‘What people mightn’t realise is that by streaming illegal content, a user’s computer is still making a copy of it, even if that copy is temporary in nature and stored on the computer’s cache.’
That’s not always true. And is a misrepresentation of cache.
What if someone was an avid cinema goer and Blu-ray collector that tried out a few downloads that they received to see of they wanted to experience it in the cinema? Does European law not dictate we must receive a service before we pay for it? Or somerhing along those lines!
If the eejits who own the movies started releasing them online themselves for a small fee the peer to peer industry would evaporate over night.
Think Netflix for cinema releases !
All the big major companies were caught of guard with the net, it came on so quickly and it 2 late now lol, I see there clamping down on YouTube n a big way ,that’s a great example of how they were caught unawares,stuff u could watch for free on YouTube until while back was brilliant
We are forced by law to pay for a TV license. That fee goes to pay for movies and shows on telly from America. We can record them and watch them whenever we want. Why should we not be able to download or stream those same shows as having a copy to watch at home which we already pay for and is legal and basically is the same thing.
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