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 Friday January 27, 2012 10:01 by Indyjourno
 Sean Sherlock, Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, has introduced new legislation that is being called Irelands SOPA. The legislation is being introduced as a statutory instrument which means that it will be implemented by the signature of the Minster and not a vote in the Dáil.
The legislation will give Courts the powers to block ISP’s and other intermediaries who provide services that might possibly be used for copyright infringement. It is similar to the SOPA legislation that was recently proposed and then dropped in the US after major websites like Wikepedia demonstrated against the proposals by blacking out for a day. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5The leglistation in Ireland stems from this
http://www.laquadrature.net/acta
ACTA and SOPA directly affects YOU.
Bascically just watch the video..and you'll know everything!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAkpsRLESWk
Further information on ACTA http://www.stopacta.info/about
Petition & information on SOPA Ireland http://stopsopaireland.com/
Meet at the garden of remberence (top of O connell street) at one o clock, we will then march to the Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation and make ourselves heard! WE cannot let Ireland or Europe get away with this. I REPEAT GARDEN OF REMEMBERENCE AT ONE PM.
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If Everyone could have some sort of a tape over your mouth to symbolize no freedom of speech,it would be great :)
It appears that the Irish labour Party have found that playing with the big boys involves dumping the grass-root and becoming industry-hacks. Certainly this is what the Greens did also, and everyone can see what happened there, even if if was behind closed doors.
In short their budgets have been unfair, they have cut the NWCI, they have targetted the poor in budget-arrangements with FG and now they wish to destroy communication and sharing. Whatever Viagra is in the Dáil water is not worth burning the ship and dancing on the burning deck. Seán Sherlock T.D did not engage in consultation, and published the wording within one hour of attempting to use RTÉ to get people 'on message' regarding his willingness to disgrace both Office and party.
This is not policy , it is simple censorship.
http://stopsopaireland.com/breaking-news-sean-sherlock-...line/
I'd be using contact.ie and lobbying those eejits whose inflexibility makes a mockery of an electoral system that is in the hand , pocket and ball-space on IBEC, EMI,Éircom and IMRO (The circle-jerk of the 'entertainment industry)
This is the level of debate of the vested interest who in close cooperation with government control the whack that passes for news in Ireland : http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0206/media.html
Yep, we are consumers of crap and tat: failed celebrities and the latest fashion is far more important than debate, which in Seán Sherlock's tiny little head amounts to taking consultation from a tiny pool of interests and launching ill-advised ad hominen attacks on the 80,000 people who signed against 'his' SI.
The Labour Party have failed already.
One of the best torrent sites closes...
RIP btjunkie.org :-(
http://btjunkie.org/goodbye.html