Six people have been arrested as part of Operation Dynamophone, an investigation by the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit.
The five men and one woman, aged between 25 and 40, were picked up in raids across London and in County Meath, Ireland, yesterday and today.
They’re being held under suspicion of running phishing scams to appropriate credit [...]
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It looks as if the largest internet service provider (ISP) in Ireland, Eircom is beginning to get tough on illegal file sharers by sending out threatening letters to those who are accused of sharing copyrighted material.
There have been rumbles around Europe from providers and governments on this practice, but Ireland has become the first country in Europe to implement the three strikes and you are off the internet policy.
According to reports, Eircom have already begun to send out warning letters to those internet users who have been singled out as being guilty of sharing or using illegal content on the internet.
Eircom gets its information from the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA), who in turn have been using internet monitoring firm Dtecnet to harvest IP addresses of filesharers.
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Irish company Eircom has become the first ISP to actually implement the three strikes and you’re off the Internet rule.
As regular readers will be aware, this basically means that if you’re caught (allegedly) downloading illegal files, you’ll be warned several times, before being disconnected from the net by the ISP.
What’s truly notable about the situation in Ireland is that nothing has to be proved regarding the alleged illegal downloading. Three accusations is all that’s required for an Internet ban, with no actual proof needed.
Although strictly speaking it’s not quite a case of three strikes and you’re out. The Irish Times reports that the first two strikes will elicit warnings, and the third a short ban of a week.
The fourth strike will actually be the biggie, and it will result in being disconnected from the Internet for an entire year.
Eircom is calling the initiative a pilot scheme, and they will be “processing” some 50 IP addresses a week under it.
The ISP has taken the action due to legal threats from the Irish Recorded Music Association.
Dick Doyle, Director General of IRMA, told the Irish Times: “We are trying to encourage people to go back to legitimate networks to get their music.”
But with no proof even necessary, what about those people who are going to get illegitimately collared for one reason or another?
Expect a similar sort of measure to be introduced over here when the spectacularly ill-debated Digital Economy Act comes into full force.
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Apple has announced it will soon be offering top Hollywood and European studio film downloads in Ireland and France, through its iTunes Store.
These will be made available for the consumer to buy or to rent.
Most of the main studios will be covered including: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, Pathe, and Lionsgate UK.
The price of buying a film will vary from 7.99 euros to 13.99 euros, whereas a rental can cost anything from 2.99 euros to 3.99 euros.
An HD version will cost an extra 1 euro.
Under the rental agreement, the user has thirty days to watch the film and once started they will have forty eight hours to complete the viewing.
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Mimecast®, the leading email management specialist, today announced that it has formed an alliance with Telefónica O2 Ireland, a leading provider of mobile services in the Irish marketplace.
The partnership will allow Telefónica O2 Ireland to resell Mimecast’s Cloud-based email management services to business customers to complement their in-house email resources.
For Mimecast, the Telefónica O2 Ireland partnership represents another significant milestone in the development of the Mimecast Partner Program.
Julian Martin, Business Development Director at Mimecast, said: “Telefónica O2 Ireland’s decision to offer business customers cloud services for email archiving, continuity, security and policy enforcement is a natural progression from a mobile email services offering, as customers’ requirements continue to evolve beyond traditional telecommunications services.
“We are delighted that Telefónica O2 Ireland has recognised Mimecast as a company that has the technology to help it meet the evolving needs of its business customers”.
Alan Brown, Business Sales Director, Telefónica O2 Ireland said: “As companies become ever more reliant on email, it is imperative that always available, cost effective email management solutions are introduced.
“Mimecast provides a great alternative and with it we are now well positioned to co-ordinate and manage the information flow across the enterprise.
“We see this as another key differentiator between ourselves and the pure voice and data providers”.
Mimecast is a cost-effective alternative for companies currently managing a variety of solutions in-house to secure, archive and provide continuous access to email.
IT staff responsible for managing email benefit from the ease of use and productivity benefits of Mimecast. Users can instantly search 10 years of archived or deleted email without needing support from IT staff.
In the event of an outage, users are unaffected as Mimecast guarantees seamless ‘always-on’ access to email.
In addition, Mimecast provides spam and virus protection and data leak prevention controls, which guarantees the security and safety of all data in emails.
Recent research conducted by Forrester Consulting*, commissioned by Mimecast, evaluated and measured the financial impact of utilising Mimecast’s cloud-based service compared to on-premise solutions.
The case study estimated 86% return on investment in seven months with benefits such as avoiding on-premise archiving and replication costs, maintaining email availability and productivity gains for email users.
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Telefónica O2 Ireland and Mimecast offer Cloud-based email
