Following the BPI's court successes last week in the ongoing P2P litigation battle, the Irish music industry as had its own court win. As previously reported, in order to pursue legal action against individual downloaders record companies must first force internet service providers to reveal the identities of the people they suspect of downloading (tracking P2P usage will only reveal the 'IP address' of file sharers) - doing so generally requires court action. In a bid to identify 49 file sharers the Irish Recorded Music Association had taken three ISPs to court - Eircom, BT Ireland and Irish Broadband. Ireland's High Court ruled last week that the internet companies must, indeed, identify the alleged file sharers, allowing the trade body to now begin legal action against those named individuals.
Jan 30, 2006
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Irish labels score court win over ISPs in P2P battle
Ireland's High Court has ruled that three internet service providers must identify 49 alleged file sharers to the Irish Recorded Music Association, which can then pursue legal action.