<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="nd-region-header clear-block "><div class="field field-title"><h1></h1></div></div><div class="nd-region-middle-wrapper nd-one-sidebar nd-sidebar-left"><div class="nd-region-middle"><div class="field ea-text-resize"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144fae"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><h1>EU court rules policing the Internet is illegal</h1></span></font></div><div class="field field-short-abstract"><p>The European Court of Justice issued yesterday (24 November) a
historic ruling establishing that member states cannot impose the
filtering of the Internet for the purpose of preventing illegal
downloads of copyrighted files.</p> </div>
<div class="field field-body"><p>“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,” the court <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2011-11/cp110126en.pdf" target="_blank">ruled</a>.</p><p>The ruling was issued in the long-standing case opposing a Belgian
copyright management company, SABAM, and a Belgian Internet service
provider, Scarlet. In 2004, SABAM requested Scarlet to filter the online
activities of its users to avoid that illegal downloads, affecting
copyright holders, were carried out.</p><p>The Belgian judges asked the opinion of the EU Court of Justice before delivering their own ruling on this thorny case.</p><div>full article : <a href="http://is.gd/bjXnqV">http://is.gd/bjXnqV</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div>
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