Adrian Weckler

So it wouldn't have to be the guards.

It wouldn't have to be the DPP or any of those offices and bodies that we typically associate with pursuing crime.

They want to get it to become an administrative fine.

The burning question...

So in Italy, it starts at 154 euro and it goes up to several thousand euro for repeat offenses.

Greece is talking about fines of even more than that, I think up to 8000 euro, maybe more.

Actually, I need to check the figures on that.

And then Portugal and Belgium are talking about it.

And they're talking about fines in the thousands as well, starting at several hundred and going up to several thousand.

Important to say again.

I don't see any legislation on the books here in Dáil Éireann for that.

I don't even really hear politicians talking about it.

Like I remember the days of, you know, music and video piracy 10, 15 years ago.

And you would have ministers like Labour's Sean Sherlock, for example.

And there was a political...

wind behind the drive to fight that type of piracy.

We got a three strikes law in Ireland where if you were detected downloading pirated material, you could be cut off from your broadband connection.

There isn't the same wind at the moment for some reason.

I'm not quite sure why that is.

I think maybe it's because