And they are right folks, the story gets worse though as it seems the Belgian rights organisation have mislead the court on many points.
http://torrentfreak.com/isp-its-impossible-for-us-to-stop-illegal-p2p-080923/An ISP which was ordered by a court to stop illegal file-sharing on its network, says it simply can not. The Belgian ISP Scarlet says the court’s verdict is unworkable and after trying to slow traffic and also filter it, it says it’s not possible to stop the flow of illicit files since Audible Magic doesn’t work
First of all, Scarlet slowed down P2P traffic with the help of some Cisco technology. All this led to was complaints from the customers, and it did nothing to stop the availability of the illicit files. A lawyer for Scarlet, Christoph Preter said: “We have actually received complaints that P2P traffic was slower, but it remained possible. It is only a deterrent measure.”
The ISP quite rightly refused to block all P2P traffic, since it said it would be blocking legitimate traffic too. However, copyright group SABAM said this was not a valid excuse. “The argument put forward by Scarlet,” said SABAM’s lawyer, “is not about the impossibility of blocking, but about the consequences.” SABAM clearly doesn’t care who is affected, as long as it gets its way.
The usual story folks, some rights group fabricates a good case to bamboozle the judge but the fact is the fantasy anti-piracy technology they themselves own a share of (or rather their international affiliates) and insist must be used, is not up to the job and never was outside of a laboratory.
The truth may hurt but when ppl start seeing these overbearing anti consumer groups attacking their internet company it may just be the catalyst required to start a kick-selfish-copyright-group-butt campaign
