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September 2006
File-swappers’ identities protected by Dutch court
from theregister.com
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.
The court also argued that the software MediaSentry uses can’t properly identify users or provide evidence of infringement.