Eircom to cancel accounts of customers who download music
A little while back I commented on Eircom and the music industries plan to filter peoples ability to download music. Now it looks like they are going to implement a 3 strike rule. Should the music industry capture your IP address while downloading music they will contact Eircom (if they are your service provider) and report you. Eircom will then giving you a warning. If you continue to download music and receive two further warnings from Eircom they will cut you off.
Also they will expand this in the future to include downloading movies and content downloaded from other ISPs. If they do not expand to other ISPs I think Eircom may stand to lose a lot of customers as many people will simply take the three strikes and move to an alternative provider. If one exists in their area.
Should one of the ISPs choose not to sign up to this deal they could capture the majority of the heavy internet users in Ireland.
I assume this tracking by the Music Indistry also includes Music downloaded from bittorrent. I would love to know how they capture your IP address. I thought Bit torrentdidn’t share too much information. But thinking about if you open a direct conenction to someone else they will of course require your IP address.
So be careful, big brother is watching you.
Ah I can see from this article in the Silicon Republic that the music industry will be using “a service called DetecNet, which poses as a P2P file sharer to target the offending downloaders and supply Eircom with the IP addresses of suspected copyright thieves”. As far as I am aware DetecNet are a company based out of France.
I would not worry. Eircom couldn’t organize a p**s up in a brewery. I doubt they could organise this successfully. I am sure they are just playing lip service. They won’t want to loose any customers.
I heard that the agreement between those assholes(Eircom) and the other assholes(Music Industry) was that the current detection infrastructure(from US servers probably) will be used and then the IP will be sent to Eircom. If Eircom wants to keep its, already disgruntled, customers they should cycle the users IP after the first letter is sent out.
I am curious as to if they can detect downloads from rapidshare/megaupload/whatever or if they just have a ‘probing node on P2P’ type detection..
From what I’ve read it seems to just be P2P apps. But who knows for sure.