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A BURMESE PYTHON that was found abandoned in the Wicklow Mountains in May has died.
The ISPCA had issued an appeal for information about the snake – dubbed Sammi – to try to trace its owners after it was discovered by a local farmer.
The five-foot-long snake was found to be underweight, dehydrated and injured.
She’d been put in the care of a reptile specialist but has since died.
ISPCA chief inspector Conor Dowling said: “In addition to the potentially illegal release of a non-native species, there are numerous possible offences under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013.
This snake did not make its own way up the Wicklow Mountains and we believe that it was abandoned and left in an environment not suited to an animal of this type. We suspect that it had been abandoned some days prior to her discovery but we also have reason to be concerned about the care that it was receiving prior to its release.
Dowling added that animals such as Sammi require specialised environments to live in and can suffer “slow, lingering deaths in normal Irish weather conditions”.
The ISPCA said it wants to see stronger regulation around the breeding, keeping and selling of exotic animals as pets.
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Why don’t they just show them and then people wouldn’t have to illegally access them?!
Because they don’t have the rights to do so, and in order to obtain the rights they would have to charge a much higher subscription in a country the size of Ireland.
Can we just clarify: it is 100% legal to use services to bypass geoblocking. The only potential illegality is a beach of content between the content provider and the distribution channel (Netflix, RTE etc…).
I think, for Netflix at least, it violates your terms and conditions. However, it seems Netflix are pretty lax about it.
Why pay for Netflix? Use Showbox it’s free… House of cards Season 3 was on it 1 day after it was on Netflix.
I like having Netflix available on several of my devices (PC, Mac, iPad, Smart TV, Playstation). I’m not arsed sorting out an Android app to run on my TV.
Still prefer utorrent.
I pay for Netflix and Spotify because they make media available to me for a reasonable price, legally. I’m ok with paying for access to media as long as it’s reasonable. Why pay for food when you can just dine and dash? Why pay for internet when you can just sit outside Starbucks and get their free wi-fi?
This is a complicated copyrights issue which is really a legacy from before the growth of internet streaming etc when media companies business models were based around buying rights to show program’s and selling ads around them in the various countries , with the advantage of global players like Netflix the old order in crumbling but don’t expect this to be resolved anytime soon and certainly not without a fight for more money from Hollywood and program makers etc. , this is not an easy issue to resolve , look at mobile roaming charges around Europe , how many years the rip off continues and even recently got kicked back – it’ll be good when it’s resolved but don’t hold your breath . The US Netflix has more on it but a huge amount of the additions good stuff is actually UK TV stuff from BBC and UTV and we already get to see here from our cable / satellite companies like Top Gear ad nausea on Dave ;)
Yeah, I’d actually happily and willingly pay two or three times more for Netflix if it was to films what Spotify is to songs. Spotify is incredible value. Netflix is just alright.
The American one is shite also. So is the Belgium and Pretty much all of them. Hopefully H.B.O start up in Ireland shortly.
I’m surprised there isn’t an obvious answer why programs are blocked, could it be that certain firms have an exclusive license to broadcast the in London but not in New York ? Makes sense.
Because people who make programs need to be paid in order to keep making them.
Hi do you need to use your e-mail address to use showbox thank you
No you do not have to register… but for anyone that downloads… look at plex… been using it for years and it’s pretty much a personalised Netflix :)
While it would be great news, it’s interesting how thing like that only ever come to EU lawmakers attention when it’s their own personal issue…
“I, for one, cannot understand why I can watch my favourite Danish channels on my tablet in Copenhagen – a service I paid for – but I can’t when I am in Brussels.”
I think youre mistaking her comment for sincerity. This isnt a woman who sat at home one day trying to watch her soaps, felt the plight of us everyday people when she was unable to watch them and so decided to take on big business and their geo-blocking for the good of Europe. There are huge vested interests in making this happen for the Union. A unified digital market and all of the laws and regulations that would come with it would be huge for the EU and is likely another baby step towards a unified Union. Not to mention the fact that it would probably reduce the number of people going to illegal streaming or torrenting sites which are not easy to monitor and are revenue blackholes for the industry.
It is legal already – unblockus.com
As stated in the Article there is nothing inherently illegal about using a VPN but accessing Netflix through one does violate their terms of service
Still not breaking any actual laws as the sensationalist headline would have you believe. Worst case scenario Netflix cancels your subscription. The fuzz won’t be at your door though.
Netflix isn’t available in China, yet there’s a significant amount of people in China using it. I imagine a hefty loss for Netfilx if they were to strictly enforce their terms and conditions:
Download Hola Extension on Google Chrome. Chose US as your location, load Netflix. No need for the EU!
I wouldn’t use that hola extension. It turns your computer into a proxy so that another user of hola can pretend to be from your country.
So that other user could download a load of child porn and it will appear to have been downloaded through your Internet connection.
“I, for one, cannot understand why I can watch my favourite Danish channels on my tablet in Copenhagen – a service I paid for – but I can’t when I am in Brussels.”
Because, legally, they need to figure out a way to make you pay to view the same content again. Akin to MP3′s replacing CD’s. Hi-Res audio replacing MP3 or Burger King replacing Jan Molby… no wait a minute, sorry…
As far as content is concerned, European Netflix customers are getting ripped off when you compare the titles available to the U.S with Ireland/England. If you’re going to pay for a Netflix account, then you’re better off paying £/€ 3-4 for a (reliable) VPN service (I know there are free browser plugins).
I use the same VPN service to get access to RTE/TV3′s live stream and ‘on-demand service’. I see now RTE intend on providing some paid-for international service. Frankly, there’s times when I want to watch something live; for example, when Love/Hate was on, there was no point waiting until the day after to watch it, as Facebook/Twitter/Radio was riddled with spoilers almost immediately.
Using an VPN service in Ireland is still 2/3rds cheaper than what RTE are charging for a service that gives you less content (and no live service), compared to a VPN.
Ya should check out unotelly, they are a fantastic vpn with contracts with a lot of the TV companies in America and Europe. ..
Breaking Bad is available on US Netflix – just watched the entire 5 series on it.
It’s also in the UK one. Along with Better Call Saul.
Zen mate or Hola chrome plugins work very well against geoblocking… Zap!!
Just download Hola it allows you access to the us netflix
That’s all we need another excuse for the great unwashed to sit on their arses watching tv.
When I do sit my arse down in front of the tv I want brilliant entertainment.
Ain’t got time for shite.
The Great Unwashed? This coming from an animal who lives in a dustbin…..
Would the unemployed be expected to walk around all day to drive everybody mad knocking on every door to ask for a job and ask them to stamp a card or something to say they did precisely that?
That would be of course, after they were dragged off by someone or other (note job opportunity) to have a wash as they do not in the world according to your version. I look about and see something wildly different but there, we do tend to look with our prejudices and not with our eyes.
Just get Hola Unblocker on chrome and log in as usual to access it
The example the minister gave was a European show being inaccessible in another European country. I don’t think American/non-EU content will be affected at all.
The content owners sell the rights to stream/broadcast their products to different markets at different prices. I don’t see how the EU could make that illegal for companies based in the US. Maybe it will mean the likes of AMC/NBC/Fox selling a streaming rights package to the EU as a whole rather than to individual countries, but streaming rights are tied up with broadcast rights. It’s hard to see how you can sell streaming rights to the EU as a whole and still get broadcasters in individual EU countries to pay top-dollar to broadcast them in their own territories.
The ability to sell rights by country is why Ireland gets to broadcast many shows a week before the UK, and why apps like 4oD and the BBC iPlayer allow catch-up on American shows. An EU-wide market might put an end to that, and may well see the likes of Netflix getting rights to shows long after they have exhausted any broadcast value, but hopefully it will mean the likes of the iPlayer becomes accessible EU-wide.
Good idea.
Abolish intellectual property laws.
The only reason every single movie, tv show, album, book, comic, and piece of software couldn’t be made available right now for free online are copyrights, patents and trademarks; state enforced monopolies on freely replicable goods which creates artificial scarcity where real abundance exists.
Then develop a new system for remunerating artists and entertainers for the work they create which still allows it to be distributed free of charge to consumers.
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