Blog: Idolator

I can certainly understand why IRMA (the Irish Recorded Music Association—basically the Irish version of the RIAA) might frown on sites like The Pirate Bay , but is it really fair for a country's record industry to demand that any site that has a link to a torrent of the entire Hothouse Flowers catalog be inaccessible to that country's Internet userbase? Just like here in the States, the recording industry of Ireland is trying to walk a fine balance between antipiracy efforts that the public will tolerate and its innate [...]