Big victory coming for European file sharing?

July 18th, 2007 | Category: Internet

whether 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 nowadays 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

by 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 needed to turn by identities in criminal things, file-sharing is a civil issue and therefor doesn’t enjoy the same legal privileges.

Original post by Grant Robertson

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