Irish ISP Eircom Will Block Illegal File Sharing Sites

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It could be feared that innocent websites are targeted and that in general peer to peer will become a web pariah even though its usage, like Cannabis, is not always criminal. Furthermore as ITExaminer puts it, it will cause a boom in offline file sharing as well as an explosion in the number of peer-to-peer file sharing proxy servers.

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