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US Supreme Court allows landmark music download lawsuit News
11.01.2011 The US Supreme Court is allowing a lawsuit against four major record labels which claims they conspired to fix pricing for downloading songs online. -
Eircom plans mobile apps for new MusicHub News
15.12.2010 Eircom has told Siliconrepublic it is planning to produce iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7 app versions of its new 4.5m song MusicHub in 2011 in a move that will see it...Categories: Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps Zone, Apps -
Eircom to cut illegal downloaders' broadband for up to 12 months News
08.12.2010 Ireland’s incumbent telecoms operator Eircom said today it is implementing a protocol that would suspend and ultimately disconnect the broadband service of users who repeatedly...Tags: Warner, Universal, Sony, EMI, Three Strikes, Broadband, Downloads, Music, Copyright Infringement, IRMA -
Eircom music service claims to undercut iTunes by 75pc News
08.12.2010 Eircom has launched its new MusicHub in collaboration with the record industry, making 4 million tracks available to stream or download at prices it claims are up to 75pc... -
Nintendo goes ape over use of catchphrase News
11.11.2010 The ultimately meaningless phrase "It’s on like Donkey Kong" has been subject to the attention of the US patent office as Nintendo attempts to trademark the phrase. -
UPC victory highlights clear gap in Irish copyright laws News
12.10.2010 UPC’s momentous victory yesterday over some of the world’s biggest music labels including Warner, EMI, Universal and Sony highlights a key gap in copyright laws and this may... -
Record labels fail in bid to get UPC to implement ‘three strikes’ News
11.10.2010 Attempts by prominent record labels to get cable broadband provider UPC to put in place a ‘three strikes’ regime against illegal file sharers as they agreed with Eircom, have... -
Apple pulls Grooveshark music app News
17.08.2010 After well over a year of preparing its service and getting its app ready and approved by the Apple App Store streaming music service Grooveshark has had its iPhone app suddenly... -
Vodafone mulls ‘three strikes’ rule on illegal downloads News
16.06.2010 Vodafone has said that while it is in discussions with music rights holders it is still too early to confirm that it will implement the ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule as... -
Apple launches movies on iTunes in Ireland News
30.04.2010 Movies from major film studios like 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney, Warner and Universal are finally available to Irish iTunes users to download. -
UPC to continue to fight music giants over ‘three strikes’ policy News
19.04.2010 Cable broadband player UPC said it will continue to ‘vigorously’ defend itself in the ISP liability proceedings taken against it by the big four music companies despite Judge...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal, Networking & Telecoms -
The day the music (piracy) died in Ireland News
17.04.2010 Three strikes and you’re out! A decision by a judge to allow record companies to hand over the IP addresses of illegal music downloaders to internet service providers clears the...Tags: Eircom, EMI, Sony, Music, Piracy, ISP, Data Protection Commissioner , Warner, Universal, Illegal Downloads, Three Strikes, IRMA, -
MUZU to go head-to-head with YouTube in jukebox wars News
24.02.2010 Feisty online music video site MUZU.TV is taking on the might of YouTube in the music video jukebox space and has developed a technology that allows music lovers to create video...Categories: New Media -
EU in web U-turn to allow member States to ban illegal file sharers News
23.10.2009 Despite a recent amendment affirming internet access as a “basic human right”, the European Parliament has done a complete U-turn and is intent on allowing EU countries to ban... -
Eircom and Big Four labels building legal music download service News
01.09.2009 Eircom revealed this morning that it is to launch an ‘innovative’ new music service in the coming months in partnership with the Big Four record labels EMI, Universal, Warner... -
Access to The Pirate Bay is denied, Eircom confirms News
01.09.2009 From today any Eircom subscriber that attempts to access file sharing site The Pirate Bay or related IP addresses will find themselves blocked, Eircom has confirmed. -
Big four seek Pirate Bay injunction against UPC News
27.08.2009 Within just days of a Swedish internet service provider (ISP) dropping The Pirate Bay after being threatened with a fine, Irish cable ISP UPC is being threatened with an... -
Muzu TV in global licensing deal Merlin – world’s largest indie label News
20.07.2009 Music video website and distribution player Muzu TV has signed a global licensing deal with Merlin, the label behind leading indie bands like Radiohead and Franz Ferdinand and... -
UPC confirms illegal download court hearing against ‘Big Four’ next week News
30.06.2009 Cable broadband provider UPC has confirmed that it has been served with a plenary summons by solicitors acting on behalf of the ‘Big Four’ record labels EMI, Warner, Universal... -
Big four music labels to take UPC and BT to court News
22.06.2009 Big Four music labels – Universal, Warner, Sony and EMI – are taking two of Ireland’s leading alternative licensed operators, UPC and BT, to court over illegal downloads and...