alright its not against sean sherlock personally but his new law.im open to correction but my reading of it is it could leave paul open to a court case if one of us do something dodgy on here or same with the owners of boards?anyway they have a petition running on boards.ie if your a member you should participate in it. http://www.boards.ie/petition/ it sends an email for you to all your local td's, which you can edit if you like
yeah sorry maj i just put it up because i know a few on here are members over there too, and it gives them a chance to sign it.heres a link to the journal to explain what its about http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/reader-irelands-sopa-a-faq/
Boards.ie and Copyright Since our inception, Boards has had a policy against copyright breaching Bittorrent links. We've been here for 12 years now and that's been our policy long before anyone came and made us adopt it. We do not support piracy. We also do not support bad law. More than 2 Million different people use Boards every month. We reach a lot of people and a lot of people use us to communicate with each other. We employ two full-time staff to respond to take down notices. That is a cost we bear to protect other people's copyright. A cost we do not see recouped from the rights holders. We are not slack about this issue. Proposed New Law Minister Seán Sherlock has proposed a new law which is best explained here: http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/read...ds-sopa-a-faq/ It will be enacted by a single stroke of his pen. Why are we opposed to this law? 1. It is vague in the extreme. There are no details of what is considered a transgression. It isn't clear if the site targeted will even be informed of the proceedings. 2. The mere threat that allowing a user to post content could land the service in court will ensure that no service allows it. The implications are no more social media for Ireland, who the hell is going to take that risk?? This scares us greatly but will TERRIFY the likes of Google, Twitter, Facebook. Of course we have to stay here and live with it. They and their thousands of jobs, don't. 3. Its not fair. This is akin to letting Bank of Ireland take proceedings against the National Toll Roads Ltd when a getaway-driver uses the M50. Pretty soon, no one will want to build roads. 4. It kills innovation and scares away foreign investment. Boards might have the clout and money to fight some of these injunctions. Smaller operators simply won’t. 5. This wont even work. This will take the pirates 10 minutes to circumvent and I can demonstrate that easily if anyone wants to see. Bad Law This is the very definition of bad law. It punishes those who are trying to do what is right while doing nothing to stop the criminals. It seems to follow the headless chicken logic of "Something must be done!!! This is something, therefore we must do this!!" Why is this being pushed through on the signature of one man without proper consultation with the industry and with the people of Ireland (over 45,000 of whom have already signed a petition against this)? It won’t work, its vastly over powered and punishes the wrong people. It’s bad law and I'm asking Minister Sherlock to reconsider it. If you wish to contact Minister Sherlock yourself, you can do so via his website: http://www.seansherlock.ie/contact-me/ Tom Murphy Founder. Director. tom .at. boards.ie @devore