Big victory coming for European file sharing?

Posted Jul 18th 2007 10:45PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Internet, News, P2P

If you're a file pirate living in the EU, you may have reason to celebrate. Juliane Kokott, Advocate General to the European Court of Justice declared today that European ISPs cannot be forced to reveal the identity behind accounts identified for sharing copyright protected material.

The statement was directed to a panel of judges mulling over the legality of a Spanish file-sharing case, and could be a harbinger of things to come in the EU. Kokott's declaration essentially asserts that although ISPs can be required to turn over identities in criminal matters, file-sharing is a civil issue and therefor doesn't enjoy the same legal privileges.

Tags: EU, filesharing, law, legal, p2p

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-19-2007 @ 10:43AM

John said...

People who want complete privacy from snooping ISPs just need to encrypt their exchanges! Several options exist out there, such as GigaTribe: http://www.gigatribe.com

7-19-2007 @ 2:43PM

kojo87 said...

interesting

*grabs PC and gets on plane to Europe*

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