Irish record industry go to court over P2P identities

The Irish record industry is doing that 'forcing internet service providers to hand over the contact names of suspected file sharer' thing, which the UK record industry has done from time to time and the US record industry does every other day. The Irish Recorded Music Association went to the High Court in Dublin this week in order to find out the identities of 23 suspected Irish file sharers, whose IP addresses were known to the record labels, but whose actually names and addresses are only known by their internet service providers. And Mr Justice Peter Kelly proved helpful, ordering the six internet firms who managed the suspected IP addresses to hand over the contact info the record labels needed. The labels, of course, will now launch legal proceedings against the 23 individual share holders for violating their copyright by illegally sharing their music via P2P. One of those being investigated reportedly made 37,500 tracks available via his PC, so I hope for his/her sake the settlements proposed aren't settlement-fee-per-track based.