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[privacy] File-Swappers' Identities Protected by Dutch Court
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:54:01 GMT
Via The Register. [snip] A Dutch appeals court has thwarted attempts by the Dutch anti-piracy organisation BREIN to get the identities of file-sharers from five ISPs, including Wanadoo and Tiscali. The court found that the manner in which IP addresses were collected and processed by US company MediaSentry had no lawful basis under European privacy laws. A lower court in Utrecht had reached a similar conclusion last year. [snip] More: http://www.theregister.com/2006/07/14/fileswappers_protected/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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