Irish High Court: ISPs Must Identify Music File-Swappers

Dublin -- The High Court of Ireland has ruled that Internet service
providers (ISPs) must turn over the identities of subscribers
alleged to have used file-sharing networks to commit copyright
infringement, according to a report from Digital Rights Ireland, a
digital civil liberties group. The Irish divisions of the major record
labels monitored file-sharing networks using a programme called
MediaSentry and obtained the IP addresses of suspected file-
swappers. They then asked the individuals' ISPs -- Eircom, BT
Communications Ireland and Irish Broadband -- to reveal the
identities of these subscribers. Justice Peter Kelly called file-
sharing "a modern form of thieving", ordered the ISPs to give
subscribers' identities to the record labels and suggested the
labels pass on that information to criminal prosecution authorities.
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