I honestly don't think this law will ever work. people should just fake ip addresses and accuse each other and create havoc and make an even bigger mockery of this law than it already is. Guilty until proven innocent - what a joke.

This is an absolute disgrace. The irish should be ashamed for letting this happen. I'd leave Eircom immediately and sign-up with another ISP, let them know your feelings by leaving in big numbers.

Bands and artists have been releasing music on What.cd for ages, I dont see why this is apparently so important. I thought bittorrent was making record labels increasingly redundant as it completely redefined music distribution and took control away from the record labels. Is there any point in still keeping the middle men? How are they making money?

This is what What.cd says about the label: "Open Your Eyes Records is a company built by musicians, for musicians. It strives to make their artists everything they should be to the public and themselves, without taking a big piece of the cake. This is contrary to the philosophy of many of the current independent labels and all of the major label juggernauts because Open Your Eyes Record has a unique vision."

I'd love to actually know how they're working this...

Disaster Movie is absolutely awful. its not even worth downloading for free. Waste of hard disk space.

What a complete waste of time and money...

im gonna screen grab a mpeg of that flash movie and torrent it to the masses.... MOOOWHOOOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Merry xmas! And i hope santa gives the Mafiaa some anal pillaging for christmas.

......i think ive had a few to many xmas beers. happy days!

xxx

lol ezee, that was an awesome response. It made me laugh. Merry xmas

If I were an Aussie I'd just download it on xmas. Even though we can watch it for free on tv, the only reason the industry doesn't like Bittorrent is because they don't have any control over the distribution system and can't rake in as much cash for spamming your head with adverts.

well said :P

I personally believe the best way is to try and get the developers/artists on side. Its slooooooowly happening with music with numerous artists releasing their new material on file-sharing networks but I dont know if it will hit the mainstream with the current situation.
If you could get the artists on side there would be no need for the money grabbing middle men in the first place.