Wednesday, January 19, 2005
French Court refuses to cut off P2P users without a hearing
A French court has refused to apply special 'urgent procedures' to cut the Internet connection of 20 P2P users in France. More on this story here, at the site of Jean-Baptiste Soufron. Particularly interesting is the fact that the court has interpreted the relevant law as NOT allowing courts to cut the contract between ISP and user - that they can only suspend access to material being disputed in litigation (ie, not the whole Internet).
Sounds good, even if it is very much in the nature of a preliminary skirmish, not rising even to the level of 'battle', let alone war.
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