If you have read the Sunday Times article, “War on Pirates” written by Mark Tighe today, you may have seen some of my quotes, I just want to clarify a few comments I made.
Firstly I said:
“I’ve moved into a new place and I’ve decided not to get the only broadband available here — Eircom or Magnet — because they both go through Eircom exchanges.
I have since seen an article that says ALTO, whose members include members include BT Ireland, Magnet Networks, NTL, Chorus, Smart Telecom, Budget Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Colt Telecom, Complete Networks, Digiweb, ESB Telecoms, Verizon, and 3 Pay Plus, will not be party to the agreements Eircom has made with record labels. So I was wrong about Magnet’s customers information being used by Eircom in this “exercise”.
Secondly with regards my downloading I said
He admits downloading “seven to 10 albums a month” but insists he would then buy three or four of those that he liked. He estimates he has downloaded about 80 gigabytes of music.
While I did say I had downloaded about 80 gigabytes of music, I intended to say that my song library was that size, and that is made up of my converted CDs, of which I have hundreds, and legally downloaded music from iTunes, eMusic and AllofMP3. The music I don’t buy, I will delete. I also don’t share music on services like RapidShare or BitTorrent.