ISPs 'cannot be forced to monitor illegal downloads' suggests EU ruling
Thursday, Nov 24th 2011 at 12:25PMThe case in question was brought by Belgian collecting society SABAM back in 2004 and initially saw Belgian courts order Belgian ISP Scarlet to block illegal P2P downloads.
Scarlet appealed, however, leading to today's ruling which said:
"EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files.
"Such an injunction does not comply with the prohibition on ...
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