Friday, 15 April 2011

The European Union rejects the filters to the peer to peer

The long vicissitude - the beginning laughed them to 2004 - that it sees contrapporsi provider the Belgian Scarlet Extended and the Sabam, local equivalent of the Siae, could be concluded favorably for who sees of malocchio the imposition of filters to the traffic from the provider.
All it is begun when the Sabam has cited in judgment Scarlet Extended as these would have drawn advantages from the exchanges carried out on the circuits peer to peer from own customers.
The court of first degree has given to reason to the Society, condemning the provider to find means in order to prevent to the customers the exchange of works protect from the copyright - in the fattispecie it has been indicated the system Audible Magic, a company that allows to identify the rows video and audio - pain the payment of 2.500 every day euros of fine if he had not supplied within six months.
Scarlet therefore has addressed to the Appeals Court, which in its turn has asked a opinion the European Law court: it can - the court asks for Brussels - a national judge emit an injunction that you obligate a provider to impose a filter without to go against the Paper of the Fundamental Rights of the UE?

While the judges of the Law court are preparing an answer, General Lawyer Pedro Cruz Villal�n is taken part rendering own opinion famous, than he can himself be condensed in a luminosity not.
To install a filter or a block constitutes a limitation of two rights: that relative to the secret of the communications and that relative one to the protection of the personal data; moreover it would go to make a dent also the information freedom.
Because a judge can impose a such measure must exist a national norm that explicitly and in way previews clear it; until the legislator he does not supply, insomma, a judge of the Union cannot intimare to a ISP to block the traffic.
Villaln invites therefore the Law court to pronounce itself in so far as, declaring that the right of the Union prohibits to a national judge to emanate, on the base of a disposition of Belgian law, a provision that orders to a supplier of access to Internet to predispose, regarding its entire customers, in abstracto and a tito it estimate, exclusively to expenses of such supplier and without limitations in the time, a system of filtering of all the electronic communications that journey for its services (in particular by means of the software employment peer-to-peer) in order to characterize, in its net, the circulation of the electronic rows containing a musical, cinematographic work or audiovisional on which a third party asserts to boast rights, and later on to block their transfer, at the level of the demand or in occasion of the shipment.
The opinion of the General Lawyer is not binding, however it comes generally respected and followed.

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