When it comes to privacy and security vs. money, the former rarely wins these days. In fact, money beats just about anything. Pretty sad.

Ha im in Ireland Cant wait 4 my letter...lol

Hey im from ireland2, what exactly can you get sued for? (Im in enough depth as it is )like is it just for downloading songs, or do people have to download them from me to get me in2 trouble?

Uploading. Research firm downloads a song from you, records your IP address, hands it with evidence to IRMA (or IFPI), ISPs can then be forced to give your personal info, you are sued!

I think ill be ok then, iv downloaded a load of songs from limewire and winmx but never let anyone download it from me, cheers... Iv given up an P2P's now anyway

ya think il b ok 2 fook them anyway
never use p2p jus private torrent trackers
should b ok there i hope but if not FOOK EM
i aint goin stopping.

is there any organisation like the EFF helping with these sort of cases in ireland? Maybe they could say whether the same privacy issue that arose in holland could be pointed to here...

The law in Ireland is up the wall`s
the last thing that is going to make
them worry is p2p downloading so i
wouldnt worry 2 much.

being irish i also have to point out the problems with law enforcement here, i know one guy for example who's in trouble for threatening someone with a knife.... he's bee charged for "firearms" ??? wtf??

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"unauthorized file sharing is illegal"
Just where on any CD does it say that.
If I send a file in a cake to any of those hard core downloading criminals would I be guilty of sharing a file?

I guess, I still struggle with the words "personal use" when it comes to making copies of any kind of format be it music or movies. It used to be that you tape recorded music off the radio to listen to, same with tv shows and movies, they were taped to VHS from your tv, for later viewing and listening pleasure. Now, we have the internet. Isn't it the same thing? Only a different method? I've also made the assumption that if I pay to download music then that website that I paid the $$ to is obtaining the music in a fair manner, or reimbursing someone.

I saw this in The Times a while ago where of course they wrote about some nonsense regarding downloaders getting the letters. On a related topic I read somewhere on the net that users needed a minimum of 500 songs to be shared for IRMA to proceed with "action". In the future this amount will be lowered but at the moment 500 is the magic number for IRMA.
Would partial sharing of songs such as Bittorrent or other applications lead to prosecutions?

In Finland we have women named Irma.

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YEAH! Irma's cool name man