Tagged: ISPs
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Ireland’s SOPA – the day of reckoning approaches News
06.02.2012 Tomorrow, the controversial statutory instrument concerning a change to the Copyright Act 2000 to correct a loophole in the legislation – dubbed ‘Ireland’s SOPA’ – goes before... -
ISPs speak out against legal change dubbed ‘Irish SOPA’ News
03.02.2012 The furious debate surrounding the statutory instrument to amend the Copyright Act 2000 – dubbed the ‘Irish SOPA’ – until now has seen one group maintain a dignified silence.... -
UK broadband speeds are 22pc faster than last year News
02.02.2012 Broadband speeds in the UK have shot up by 22pc on last year, a new survey by Ofcom reveals. Residential broadband speeds in November were 7.6Mbps, compared with 6.2Mbps a year... -
SOPA Box – debating the future of the internet in Ireland News
31.01.2012 Ahead of this evening’s Dail debate on the statutory instrument that amends the Copyright Act 2000, two of the leaders behind the Stop SOPA Ireland petition – Michele Neylon and... -
Ireland’s SOPA: could a new Copyright Act be the way forward? News
30.01.2012 Primary legislation, potentially in the shape of a new Copyright Act or an amendment to the existing legislation, is being examined as a way to ensure Ireland is at the...Categories: Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal -
SOPA, so good – Sherlock holds off copyright change until Dail debate News
27.01.2012 Just like waves of protest in the US held off the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), in Ireland public concern expressed in the form of a petition and public debate have encouraged...Categories: Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Communications -
SOPA and Ireland: Minister publishes draft of statutory instrument News
26.01.2012 One of the main reasons for the ‘Irish SOPA’ controversy brewing up was no one had seen the draft legislation, or statutory instrument amending the legislation. Today, junior...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Intellectual Property, Government, Games/Entertainment, Communications, Internet, Social Media -
Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA News
23.01.2012 Just as the SOPA and PIPA debate winds down in the US, the European Union is later this week set to work on ratifying a global intellectual property enforcement treaty: the... -
EU court decides ISPs can’t be forced to block file sharers News
24.11.2011 UPDATE: Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice, has decided that internet access is a human right and that EU law precludes injunctions being taken against... -
Copyright holders seek ‘reasonable measures’ to halt piracy News
25.11.2011 UPDATE - Sources close to the entertainment industry locally, who are fighting to protect the rights of copyright holders in the face of wholesale piracy online, say yesterday’s... -
Will Irish ISPs take greater steps to protect children online? News
14.10.2011 Earlier this week, it emerged that four ISPs in the UK voluntarily moved to block porn and only allow access on an opt-in basis in order to prevent children from accessing this... -
Tough new broadband advertising rules for UK ISPs News
29.09.2011 The body responsible for writing advertising rules in the UK, the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP), has ruled that ISPs can no longer use the use the term ‘unlimited’ if... -
Massive growth in data traffic on Irish networks - INEX News
23.09.2011 The volume of data passing through Ireland’s internet service provider peering network increased more than 16 times in the past five years. -
Irish wireless broadband firm joins US body WISPA News
16.09.2011 A Cork wireless broadband company has joined the US Wireless Internet Services Providers Association (WISPA) as it continues to consolidate its presence in the US. -
Telcos face bandwidth struggle against rise of OTT video News
18.07.2011 The over the top (OTT) video trend that will see a proliferation of online video on consumer electronic devices will represent an enormous bandwidth challenge for telcos and... -
Court in Finland orders ISPs to disconnect file sharers News
30.06.2011 In what could be a sign of what could happen here once changes to copyright laws are made, a court in Finland has issued orders for ISPs to disconnect three subscribers from the...Tags: Copyright, Illegal File-sharing, Piracy, The Pirate Bay, UPC, Eircom, Richard Bruton, Broadband, ISPs, Music -
Music industry and ISPs need to work together on copyright – IMRO News
29.06.2011 The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) said there is no adequate legislation to protect songwriters, authors and publishers in the digital era and said it was imperative it... -
Telcos, ISPs anxious as digital copyright law changes loom News
22.06.2011 Telcos and ISPs in Ireland have just more than a week left to respond to proposals aimed at changing Ireland’s copyright laws, which they fear could result in controversial... -
Radical copyright law reform to boost Ireland’s digital economy? News
09.05.2011 A process of reform of Ireland’s copyright regime has been kick started by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD in a move he says is aimed at... -
ISPs need to wise up on movie piracy – Xtra-vision boss News
21.04.2011 Issues like ‘three strikes’ and scaremongering in the ICT sector over changes to Ireland’s copyright laws are distracting from the real issue of movie and music piracy, the head...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Legal Eagle, Legal, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Cloud