The United Voice of ISPs in Ireland
October 14, 2010
The recently published court decision upholding the “mere conduit” status of ISPAI member UPC Ireland as a provider of Internet access services is welcomed by the ISPAI.
ISPAI does not in any way condone the misuse of ISP’s Internet services by persons to obtain copyrighted works for free. This is reflected within the acceptable usage policies in members’ contracts with (more…)
June 30, 2010
A Summary of the 2009 Report is available here or to see the full Report please follow the link: http://www.hotline.ie/report2010/index.html (more…)
June 17, 2010
ISPAI fully supports member organisation UPC in its stance in defending its position of “mere conduit” as a provider of Internet access services. We have stated these priniciples on many occassions to the media and on this site.
ISPAI reiterates that it does not in any way condone the use of ISP’s Internet services for the infringement of Copyright. (more…)
June 8, 2010
EuroISPA (of which ISPAI is a member Association) together with Telecoms Associations has issued the following statement on the ACTA trade negotiations.
Industry is concerned that proposals within these trade negotiations appear to require operators to directly divulge customer details to rights holders and to place liability on network providers contrary to the eCommerce directive. (more…)
February 25, 2010
ISPAI is very alarmed by the ruling of an Italian judge that three Google executives were criminally responsible for an online video of an autistic teenager being bullied posted by a user of their service. (more…)