Why apart from the journal (thank you) thus hasn’t got more coverage on our state broadcaster?
This is just diabolical and I’m truly disgusted how censorship is slowly creeping into our society and yet so many people I talked to today haven’t even heart of this.

There was a comment made yesterday about second hand books. Believe it or not, Microsoft are releasing their new xbox 720 next year which will only play new games and not second hand games. That’s just sad I think. I worry for our future.

This man doesn’t even know where he is, let alone what he is doing! More negative imaging of Ireland within Europe and indeed the IT industry..silly man

This legislation would be a disaster to people’s privacy, online businesses, social media and the economy

It appears ACTA has been officially signed. Anonymous are p1ssed. According to the Faebook page, all EU Members will be targeted. It appears the EU Parliament, Polish Government and Italian Government websites have been shut.

EU EU EU that’s all we hear,we have to pass this or pay this or do this or a bomb will go off ……Whats the point in having the Dail when our government are mere secretaries of Europe.
The government wants a smart economy,they clearly haven’t a clue.

I counted 8 TD’s present at the ‘debate’ earlier today. That’s 8 out of 166 TD’s. Still haven’t decided if that’s a good or bad thing!

In one of the most important debates we’ll see this year in the Dail, it looks like there was a 10% attendance rate.Disgraceful!Where were the United Left Alliance?! Fair play to Keating and Murphy for putting their points across in a concise and productive manner.What is so bizarre about Sherlocks final point is that he admits that no matter what you do to try and stop piracy, the Internet will “evolve to circumvent it” and that the stakeholders involved need to get together to find a better solution rather than shutting down websites.

Why is Sean Sherlock committing political suicide?

Has he been promised a big payout or a seat on the board of EMI/SONY or another greedy corporation once his term is finished?

I think so!

Is he going to arrange this pow-wow between the ISPs Websites and the Music and Film industry, maybe this should be facilitated by the government before pushing through some vague legislation.

Sherlock does not grasp that entertainment interests effectively want more control over the Internet, over users’ searches on the Internet, and ultimately more control over shaping users’ experiences on the Internet. The music industry wishes to restrict Internet searches to ensure they only return ‘approved’ sites and content, industry approved that is. Imagine if the book industry decided that every time a search for a particular book was conducted, only sites approved by a cartel of publishers would returned in the results. It is only a small step to complete censorship and complete suppression of independent competition. The policing of all this will be forced on the ISPs, the search engine and social network providers by entertainment interests courtesy of government legislation. It puts in mind the image of walking through a European city but being fined by municipal officers if you look in one window rather another, visit one restaurant rather than another, catch a show in one theatre rather than other. All too USSR.

Well the only thing he managed to make any sense on was that music companies need to sit down.. but not with ISP’s. They need to become more innovative and affordable. Music companies have been draining every penny out of people for to long. If the music artist hasto take a cut on their musical property well so be it! Might calm down some of the extravagant lifestyles.. Apple have been leaders with the way music is delivered but it’s still to expensive, I think a monthly subscription to the likes of grooveshark.com etc is a good beginging and the way forward but it’s still always going to be easy to rip music off despite all this legislation, blocked by ISPs or
Not! People will just use flash cards USB sticks to pass or
Copy music etc! It might even be easier to that now! Who knows?

Protest planned for this Saturday 2.00pm at the Dail.

To summarise Sean Sherlock between all the ehh ehhh eu eu Ehh hah, reminded me of when I didn’t do my homework and had to deliver a impromptu presentation.
He is representing EMI music industry because they are not happy with the outcome of the court case versus UPC, no legislation is taught out only a vendetta is in play, plain and simple. we will suffer kinda like the evoting machines except we will loose jobs and he will retain his position.

Originally posted by Steve Kay, but this explains everything about Sean, a reminder of how to laugh.
http://i.imgur.com/uHcVs.png

he’s typing Google into Google!!!!

As my friend pointed out today piracy is still possible with CDs. One could burn an album on a CD and pass it around to friends to share music for free. It is near impossible to stop piracy IMO.

Predictable. And actually, predicted.
http://www.thejournal.ie/sherlock-open-to-dail-debate-on-plans-for-online-piracy-law-337005-Jan2012/#comment-230692