Regulatory Developments

I had an interesting discussion last week with Thorsten Kraft of the German ISP association, eco, on how German network providers cooperate to help reduce the number of their users’ PCs that are infected with malware. The UK Government has recently added this as an aim in our national Cyber Security Strategy so the German [...]

There seems to be a shift in how Governments and rightsholders are looking to use Internet intermediaries, such as ISPs, to enforce Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on line. For some time the focus has been on looking at the content of network traffic in order to detect infringing copies – in Belgium a court went [...]