Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN previously obtained permission from the Dutch Data Protection Authority to track and store the personal data of alleged BitTorrent pirates.
Unlike other copyright enforcement groups, BREIN is not interested in casual pirates. Instead, it focuses on the bigger fish and asks Internet service providers (ISP) to forward a warning to these subscribers.
However, the Utrecht court ruled that the ISP is not required to cooperate with this request. Without a license from the Dutch Data Protection Authority, linking the IP-address to the subscriber information would violate privacy law. For the same reason, it can’t share the subscriber details directly with BREIN either.
Source: Forwarding Piracy Warnings Violates Privacy Law, Dutch Court Rules * TorrentFreak
