“We Want a Debate, and to Engage an Open Discussion… But We’re Passing It Anyway…”
Posted on 26th Jan 12 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 
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Sean Sherlock’s attempts to “clarify” things continue to land him in hot water.
So, to summarise the debate on Sean Sherlock‘s legislation a few minutes ago: opposing points were brought up by independent and FG TDs. They were made tenuously but effectively regards the ambiguity of the language of the statement. Sherlock then parroted UPC vs. EMI for the umpteenth time, before expressing his desire to “engage” people on the topic… before stating his intent to pass it this month without any engagement.
Without a debate in Oireachtas, during which clarifications can be made; or for that matter, the promised meeting with music media and copyright holders, or even a speech made available for reference to the public, it should be obvious to even the spoon-fed of music and media traditionalists what exactly is going on here.
Tags: stopseansherlock, stopsopaireland
The VP of EMI said himself that this kind of legislation is not the answer and quoted Gabe Newell by saying, “it’s a service issue not an issue of money”. Sean Sherlock himself said today that no matter what you do to counter piracy, the internet will “evolve to circumvent it”. It’s like everyone, on both sides agree this is pointless but they’re doing it anyway. Why? Control. That’s all.