The largest Irish provider will disconnect users for downloading pirated content

    The largest Irish provider Eircom, as a result of pressure from the Irish Recorded Music Association, agreed to start disconnecting users for downloading pirated content. This will not be done immediately, but after the user has been convicted of piracy three times: after the third warning, there will be a shutdown for a week, and after the fourth - for a year.

    The decision to introduce a three-warning system by the country's largest provider automatically obliges smaller companies to do the same. Eircom itself notes that to launch the system, a new special hardware and software complex is needed, which the company does not have yet. At the stage of development and testing of the system, the provider will disconnect from the Network at 50 IP addresses of intruders per week.

    In addition, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that the IP addresses of users are not private data and the provider has the right to disclose them, as well as use for the operation of content analysis systems. Thus, organizations like IRMA, if disconnecting the user from the Network is not enough for them, they can go directly to it and sue on their own behalf.

    If Eircom implements such a system in the coming months, then Ireland will be the first country with a functioning system of forced blocking for downloading pirated content. To date, the same systems at the legislative level have been approved in South Korea and France, but here they are not yet implemented in practice.

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