Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

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1. In connection with stiffing the right to privacy by constantly repeating pushes to weaken the encryption (either by mandating backdoors or forbidding usage in some cases)…

   The freedom is going to be strictly rationed, so there’s enough for all. /s

2. Intellectual monopoly is a societal cancer destroying western civilisation. Abolish copyright and patent before it’s too late.

3. Oligarchs should be imprisoned without any due process. Period.

4. talk about how the eu is much different from usa

5. What a fkn joke.

6. Courts apply legislation. So I guess it’s time to change legislation for the better.

7. Andoff course with perfect timing to friday noon, right before the weekend. No one can act on that until monday and the buzz will be over.

8. >Whereas in 2020, the CJEU considered that the retention of IP addresses constituted a serious interference with fundamental rights and that they could only be accessed, together with the civil identity of the Internet user, for the purpose of fighting serious crime or safeguarding national security, this is no longer true. The CJEU has reversed its reasoning: it now considers that the retention of IP addresses is, by default, no longer a serious interference with fundamental rights, and that it is only in certain cases that such access constitutes a serious interference that must be safeguarded with appropriate protection measures.

9. To who? Is it more important to the people or a group of people? Surely they didn’t forget how democracy works?

10. This is an extremely sensationalist headline to describe a specific case of IP address retention for copyright violations. This is also a matter of interpreting, rather than setting, legislation.

    It is relevant in the big picture, but everybody’s attention right now should be on the encryption issue.