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Week 34 of 2009 in review

I thought to myself…

Darragh…. you don’t update this nearly enough! You need to come up with some kind of repeating feature to force yourself to update this more regularly!

Now you see the thing is, I quite like writing. That said, I don’t do it nearly enough. So with that in mind this is the concept that I have come up with. I am going to do a week in review post… well once a week obviously. Anyway it is going to be a bit of a mixed bag with regard to content. I will cover stuff that has directly affected me (in keeping with my usual personal blogs) and also some interesting news stuff from the past week. By interesting, I mean interesting to me. Read the rest of this entry »

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Eircom reaction time as slow as their broadband

The Pirate Bay... a sinking ship?

The Pirate Bay... a sinking ship?

It appears that the hapless folks over at Ireland’s largest ISP eircom, will make good on their threats to censor sites that violate copyright laws. Eircom will take this action based on the advise of the IMRO. Now under ordinarily  I would be outraged at the blocking of  The Pirate Bay (or indeed any other website) on the grounds of my objection to censorship and my concerns for the privacy of my data. However in this instance I am quite looking forward to Eircom taking this action.

Why do I want Eircom to block The Pirate Bay?

Well this is simple really. As most web users will be aware The Pirate Bay is in the process of being purchased by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF). This deal is now almost completed and is due to be come into force on August 27th. Well what difference does this make I hear you say. Well the shock move to buy The Pirate Bay have angered much of the users of The Pirate Bay as it is the intention of GGF to legalize The Pirate Bay. They will do this by offering copyright holders the ability to request the removal of their data from the Pirate Bay. What is interesting though is that for those copyright holders who do not wish to have their IP removed from the site, GGF will be reimbursing the copyright holders every time their files are downloaded. Thus making The Pirate Bay a legal service.

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Ireland’s economic mental block

Is it just me or has Ireland’s culture of begrudging come full circle to the point that we have talked ourselves into an economic recession? I am a massive fan of the radio and on Wednesday evening I got listening to the reapeat of Eamon Keane’s lunchtime show on Newstalk. In the brief section of the show which I caught Eamon had Brenda Keenan of the Irish Independent on air. I was most refreshed by Bredan’s view on what needed to be done to take Ireland out of recession.

Brendan Keenan’s solution to Ireland’s economic recession.

Basically Brendan’s suggesstion on how the normal citizen can help to pull us out of this recession is quite a simple one and mirrors an approach previously taken by our Gorvernment in the run up to the ‘celtic tiger’ era. Brendan suggests that our best approach would be to continue spending money. It is no secret that there is still a lot of money in Ireland. It is however held by a certain portion of the population. This I certainly feel is part of the problem that we have in Ireland at the moment. If the people with money hang on to it and do not spend it, then our situation stagnates.

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