IRMA vs. the filesharers (did you get a letter from IRMA?)

TheMonster

lol thats funny

maidhc

It would make for an amusing picture in the DRI blog.

Pa ElGrande

It was just too tempting for them not to try and cash in via Google Adwords. They obviously need all the €€€ they can get for "PHASE III" of the "IRISH RECORDING INDUSTRY LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL MUSIC FILESHARERS".

damien

Anyone want to buy some adwords?

Drag00n79

[FONT=Verdana, Arial][FONT=Arial, Verdana, Arial]Uproar as France votes to boost music file-sharing[/FONT]
FILM-MAKERS and record companies are outraged by a parliamentary vote to make France the first country in the world to legalise the online sharing of movies and music.
In a decision that flies in the face of international efforts to crack down on web piracy, the French parliament passed an amendment to permit file-sharing by users willing to pay royalties and net subscriptions.
For a monthly payment of a few euros, people would be able to download as much as they wished.
The vote is acutely embarrassing for the French culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres. His draft bill on intellectual property rights included gradual penalties which start with warnings but lead to fines of up to €150,000 and three years in jail.
Only about 60 members were in the French lower house for the vote. But 22 of the 30 MPs supporting the amendment were from the ruling centre-Right UMP.
With actors and musicians in uproar, prime minister Dominique de Villepin has stepped in to convince UMP members that the stakes are higher than they initially supposed.
Source: Irish Independent 24-12-2005

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Pa ElGrande

From the courts diary the next round is for

TUESDAY 24TH JANUARY
2005/04368 P EMI RECORDS (IRELAND) LIMITED & OTHERS V EIRCOM LIMITED & OTHERS (FH)

damien

Nicely spotted!

dahamsta

damien.m wrote:

Anyone want to buy some adwords?

Only robber-barons like the labels could afford the AdWord "mp3".

adam

TJM

Pa ElGrande wrote:

From the courts diary the next round is for

TUESDAY 24TH JANUARY
2005/04368 P EMI RECORDS (IRELAND) LIMITED & OTHERS V EIRCOM LIMITED & OTHERS (FH)

Hearings are open to the public and anyone is free to attend if interested. This application will take place at 11am on Tuesday in court 15 (in the main Four Courts complex), before Kelly J. (the same judge who heard the last application). If planning on going along, allow 20 minutes or so to get through the new Four Courts security arrangements.

Pa ElGrande

ONLY 10 out of 66 people identified as having illegally uploaded thousands of music tracks in the past year have not settled their cases with the record companies involved.

The average payout to the music industry - including damages and costs - has been in the region of €2,500.

But some of the remaining cases - three in particular - look destined to go all the way to court, according to the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA).

The music industry group said that some individuals were playing "hardball".

"We have had quite a lot of success in getting payments over the past few months and the vast majority have already been wrapped up," IRMA director general Dick Doyle said yesterday.


Majority of music pirating cases settled
JASON O'BRIEN
http://www.unison.ie/entertainment/music/stories.php3?ca=61&si=1632026 [ free registration required]

I was wondering why we hadn't heard from the IRMA in a while.
Good luck to those people who are prepared to stand against the IRMA.

Pa ElGrande

Case for mention Monday 11AM 26/06/2006

17. EMI RECORDS & ORS -V- EIRCOM LTD & ANOR;MATHESON ORMSBY PRENTICE (CON 84)

http://tinyurl.com/jq9o3

sh_o

Pa ElGrande wrote:

Case for mention Monday 11AM 26/06/2006

17. EMI RECORDS & ORS -V- EIRCOM LTD & ANOR;MATHESON ORMSBY PRENTICE (CON 84)

http://tinyurl.com/jq9o3

It is for mention in front of the taxing master - it will probably just be a preliminary mention of a squabble over the level of legal costs.

antoinolachtnai

What do you think DRI should do about this issue now?