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Belgian ISP Says it Cant Stop Illegal File-Sharing

By soulxtc

Scarlet calls court demands that it filter or block copyrighted files impossible. A Belgian ISP, SA Scarlet, has told a court in the country that it cannot feasibly stop illegal file sharing following a 2007 court order that it must block or filter copyright infringing files from being traded on its network. The ISP tried both slowing P2P traffic and filtering it before eventually coming to the conclusion that the court’s demand was unworkable. For every day that Scarlet doesn’t filter or remove illegal P2P traffic from its network, the company has to pay 2,500 Euros in compensation according to the 2007 court verdict. That makes convincing the court that filtering all illegal content is infeasible an important proposition from the company.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).