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February 01, 2008

EU court supports privacy of music downloaders - Yahoo! News

Link: EU court supports privacy of music downloaders - Yahoo! News.

"Europe's top court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the defenders of authors' rights, upholding a Spanish Internet provider's refusal to reveal the identity of customers sharing music downloads.
The protection of authors' rights "cannot ... affect the requirements of the protection of personal data," the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) said in its ruling..."

And the same thing will happen as far as blocking p2p traffic in ISPs is concerned - the very idea is DOA. Unless you want a new kind of police state (maybe ask Paul Mc Guinness how to do it?)

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