PROTECTION OF IP
follow the news about data protection in the online environment. This time is the privacy of the users that has been strengthened and their greater freedom in the use of P2P networks. The Supreme Court has returned to give them right around the personal nature of IP directions.
And the courts have turned body the appeal that the association of the music industry Promusicae- had imposed against the judgment of the Audiencia Nacional, issued in 2011, which stated that IP addresses are personal data and can not violate his protection to guarantee the right to intellectual property.
The music producers sought to obtain data from P2P users without their consent. To do this, they decided to hire the services of the company DtechNet Software , which allow them to sweep the P2P networks and identify Internet users who will download protected files included in a list provided by Promusicae. The case has gone on for Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) High Court and now the Supreme Court, always with the same result by removing the reason the industry musical.
The new sentence appeals to the supreme “ the special protection granted by the legislature to the linked data communication over the Internet ” and states that “ is not possible to deliver IP addresses to a private entity “. Clarifies that “ the protection of intellectual property rights, which is the basis of what is intended by the appellant institution, deserves all the respect of this Court “, but that “ can not made on the basis of violating rights, which also deserve protection, such as those derived from data protection (understood in a much broader than simply privacy sense) “.
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