Recent decisions of the Irish courts show that Ireland, as a
jurisdiction, is capable of responding efficiently to the changing
landscape of internet copyright infringement and providing just and
effective remedies to copyright holders.
The enforcement by copyright holders of their rights against
unauthorised streaming sites has been compared to the fairground
game of Whack-A-Mole. Each time a copyright holder might get an
injunction against an infringing server or streaming site, another
will simply pop up somewhere else. The solution is a blocking
injunction.
The blocking injunction has been invoked a number of times in
Ireland, and its use as a remedy against stream hosting servers was
recently revisited by Barniville J in the Commercial Court
in
UEFA v Eircom Limited & Ors.
