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ISPs across Europe are fighting against their respective government's introduction of 'Three-Strikes' legislation. The legislation changes the responsibility of online piracy from being the problem of content owners, to the problem of ISPs. Content owners argue this is correct, since they're the victims, but ISPs argue that they are only providing a service, like telephone and other utility companies, and that tasking them with the responsibility of detecting user activity and placing a legal judgement over these activities is beyond their scope.
Irish ISP UPC is one such ISP fighting the latest laws, saying that "there is no basis under Irish or European law requiring an ISP to monitor or block subscriber traffic on its network."
Movie studios and music labels, which make millions more per year than an average ISP, also say that because technical solutions are much easier to implement on the ISP level, that's where the solution needs to be found. However, the end result is that ISPs have to fork over their own hard earned cash in a possibly vain effort to secure the profit of much larger, multinational corporations. And this, they argue, is simply not fair.
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Irish ISP UPC is one such ISP fighting the latest laws, saying that "there is no basis under Irish or European law requiring an ISP to monitor or block subscriber traffic on its network."
Movie studios and music labels, which make millions more per year than an average ISP, also say that because technical solutions are much easier to implement on the ISP level, that's where the solution needs to be found. However, the end result is that ISPs have to fork over their own hard earned cash in a possibly vain effort to secure the profit of much larger, multinational corporations. And this, they argue, is simply not fair.
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