Irish Fight For Their Rights
Digital Rights Ireland has formed to fight for digital, civil, and legal rights. The group fights for consumer privacy, fair use, private copying, and laws that reflect how people use digital media. Digital Rights Ireland is actively involved in lobbying the irish government.
More about the group and its music position from an Irish Times article :
The iPod has revolutionised the way we listen to music, but it has also opened a legal minefield. "As it stands in Irish law, it seems to be illegal for you to make a private copy of a CD that you've bought, so it's illegal to copy a CD on to your iPod," says TJ McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland. "Needless to say, the music industry would like to be in a position where they sold you the music once on vinyl, once on cassette, once on CD and they'd now like to make you pay for the privilege of listening to it on your iPod."
In May, the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) recommended that the law be changed to reflect a new reality in which people routinely convert their purchased CDs into MP3s. However, Sean Murtagh of Irma, the Irish equivalent of the BPI, says it has no plans to make a similar recommendation here.
Hi Marc,
I volunteer with DRI about media connections for DRI.
Thanks for the mention. You may be interested in reading about filesharing cases in Ireland that DRI have advised and helped in.
http://www.digitalrights.ie/category/irma/
Contact me if you require any more information.
Bernard, thank you for visiting. Marc