Four music companies have brought a legal challenge to a notice of the data protection commissioner, hoping to uphold a "three strikes and you're out" agreement the companies made with Eircom to combat illegal downloads of music, reports The Irish Times. The companies contend the commissioner's enforcement notice ordering Eircom to stop implementing the agreement--claiming it breached data protection and privacy laws--is an "unlawful and irrational attempt to reopen data protection issues already determined in the favour by the High Court," the report states. A judge will handle the companies' request to have the case fast-tracked on 12 March.
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