A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was wheth…
From the article-linked ruling press release - what it means in practice, what this was about:
In order to protect works covered by copyright or related rights against offences committed on the internet, a
French decree introduced two personal data processing operations. The first operation consists of the collection, by
rightholder organisations, of IP addresses which appear to have been used on peer-to-peer websites to commit
such offences and the referral of those IP addresses to the Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la
protection des droits sur internet (High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the
Internet) (Hadopi) 1. The second operation, carried out by the internet access providers at Hadopi’s request, consists,
inter alia, of matching the IP address with the civil identity data of its holder. Those data processing operations
enable Hadopi to initiate a procedure against the persons identified, combining educational and punitive measures,
which may lead to a referral to the public prosecution service in the most serious cases.
I find the ruling press release is much more understandable (and much more informative) than the OP-linked article.
Definitely; OP’s linked article doesn’t have any quotes that refer to copyright, while this one of yours adds a lot of context that was otherwise missing. There’s a world of difference between allowing retention of IP addresses and creating a cleaning house for IPs suspected of distributing works.
From the article-linked ruling press release - what it means in practice, what this was about:
I find the ruling press release is much more understandable (and much more informative) than the OP-linked article.
Definitely; OP’s linked article doesn’t have any quotes that refer to copyright, while this one of yours adds a lot of context that was otherwise missing. There’s a world of difference between allowing retention of IP addresses and creating a cleaning house for IPs suspected of distributing works.