{"id":38837,"date":"2011-11-25T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38837"},"modified":"2011-11-25T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:56:45","slug":"european-isp-can%e2%80%99t-block-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/38837-european-isp-can%e2%80%99t-block-users.html","title":{"rendered":"European ISP can\u2019t block users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a ruling by the EU Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe\u2019s highest court, Internet service providers (ISPs) can\u2019t be forced to block users from downloading songs illegally &#8211; as such action would breach EU rules.<\/p>\n<p>The court issued a verdict in the case involving Belgian music royalty collecting society, SABAM, and Belgian telecom operator <a title=\"Belgacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384683-Belgacom\">Belgacom<\/a> unit, Scarlet.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SABAM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384679-SABAM\">SABAM<\/a> requested that a Belgian court force Scarlet to install a device that would prevent its users from downloading copyright works &#8211; a move which was initially successful.<\/p>\n<p>However, Scarlet challenged the ruling, which prompted the Belgian court to turn to the ECJ for advice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EU law precludes the imposition of an injunction by a national court which requires an internet service provider to install a filtering system with a view to preventing the illegal downloading of files,&#8221; ruled the ECJ.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Reuters news agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/24\/us-court-sabam-scarlet-idUSTRE7AN1I120111124\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European court has rules that ISPs can\u2019t be forced to monitor or block internet users<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6947,6941,6943,6945],"class_list":["post-38837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-belacom","tag-eu","tag-eu-court-of-justice","tag-sabam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38849,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions\/38849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}