E.U. Court Rules No Need to Reveal IPs in Uploading Cases

[engine]

The European Court of Justice has ruled that IPs do not have to be revealed in cases of uploaded copyright content to sites such as YouTube.

The case stems from a German film distributor’s request that YouTube provide details about users who had uploaded the films “Parker” and “Scary Movie 5″ onto the platform. YouTube and its parent company Google refused to provide their email addresses and telephone numbers, as well as the IP addresses they used.

“When a film is unlawfully uploaded onto an online platform, such as YouTube, the rightholder may, under the directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, require the operator to provide only the postal address of the user concerned, but not his or her email, IP address or telephone number,”

[apnews.com...]

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Most of platforms are not requesting you to enter your postal address, so they can't fulfill requests to give the address of a user.

Now, the thing is, with recent EU laws, now platforms are liable for the content uploaded by their users. So, if rights holder can't sue a user, it can sue the platform.

Also, a judge can still order a platform to reveal IP address, email address ,etc ... but that is longer procedural work.

[engine]

This really is a bit of a strange ruling. I don't think i've ever recorded my postal address at any online service for user uploads.