Austria’s Die Presse reports about a recent decision of the Austrian Supreme Court (4 Ob 41/09x), according to which the
File-Sharing User’s Right of Privacy Has a Higher Priority
than a copyright enforcer’s right of information.
The Supreme Court had to deal with a case where a collecting society requested an ISP to disclose the personal data of a file-sharing user, whose IP address the collecting society had already obtained.
By so deciding
The Supreme Court Overruled the Lower Instances
which found the defendant ISP liable to provide the claimant collecting society with the requested information.
The decision is considered to have a certain signalling effect.
[…] to opine that file sharers’ interest in the protection of their traffic and identity data outweighs the enforcers’ interests to access such […]
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[…] to opine that file sharers’ interest in the protection of their traffic and identity data outweighs the enforcers’ interests to access such […]