Jan
23
IT Law in Ireland: Adrian Weckler confims that "Ireland's SOPA" will be vague and open-ended
The clear implication from his interview with Sean Sherlock is that the proposed measures will be lacking in any real detail, leaving it entirely up to the judges as to what types of blocking might emerge. (Possibly going beyond web blocking to also target hosting and other services.)
This is very worrying. As bad as SOPA And PIPA are, at the very least you could say that they had a clearly defined punishment should a website or business be found to be in contradiction to them. Sherlock has no such plan, instead wanting to wait and get a test case to measure the proportionality of a judges response against.
