Eircom blocking Pirate Bay, stupid idea

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: August 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Okay over the past few months there was a lot of war over The Pirate Bay and all of its illegal downloading issues. This really had and still has major record label company's all edgy. They are continuously asking Irish phone broadband companies to block there customers access to the Pirate Bay website.

So fair enough, a few months ago this might have been somewhat acceptable, they wanted to save money by stopping people from downloading illegally. Obviously this would cause a lot of controversy with people with freedom of information and so on.

However it has been fully settled now for a few months that the Pirate Bay has been sold to another company, and this company wishes to convert the illegal site into a legal one, perhaps by making people pay to download music albums and maybe in turn provide royalties back to the owners of the content.

I am sure the record companies are aware of this and yet they still persist on asking Irish broadband providers to block the site. It is a waste of time for them doing this. According to the 'Irish Times' ( Irish Newspaper ) Eicom have agreed to block the site from September on, whereas other broadband providers have refused to do so.

I think that the record companies should just sit back, at least for the moment and wait for the transfer of ownership to take place, and if it is changed to a legal site then there will be no need to go around hassling broadband companies. But if it remains an illegal site then fair enough try your best.

I personally think that it should never be allowed for someone to block you access to a site. If you pay for a service you should be allowed to look at what you want, when you want.