The United Voice of ISPs in Ireland
January 20, 2012
ISPAI Welcomes Minister’s Assurances that Forthcoming Statutory Instrument will not create a SOPA-like situation in Ireland
If a legal requirement exists for the introduction of a Statutory Instrument, ISPAI believes that this must be very carefully balanced to ensure that it does not (more…)
January 19, 2012
The ISPAI is fundamentally opposed to tampering with the architecture of the Internet to deal with issues such as copyright infringement. This is what the Stop Online Piracy Act intends to do, and regrettably, we are also seeing this in proposals which are finding favour with the EU such as ACTA, which the European Council gave the green light for signing in December. The ISPAI has never condoned piracy on our members services, but laws effectively censoring (more…)
December 17, 2011
Official Journal of the European Union – Legislative Acts – DIRECTIVE 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council – 13 December 2011 – on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA
November 24, 2011
The European Court of Justice has today published its judgement that: “EU law precludes an injunction made against an Internet Service Provider requiring it to install a system for filtering all electronic communications passing via its services which applies indiscriminately to all its customers, as a preventive measure, exclusively at its expense, and for an unlimited period.” (more…)
July 4, 2011
The OECD published its proposal (link here) on Principles for Internet Policy-Making in Paris on Wednesday the 28th June which the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council (CSISAC) refused to sign due to a number of concerns, particularly relating to the roles and responsibilities of Internet intermediaries.
CSISAC expressed the opinion that several (more…)