Creative Commons - Belgium

[Wouter Vanden hove <wouter.vanden.hove AT telenet.be>]

BeMol!- Marcel Vander Mierde wrote:

> Wim,
> in Belgium, this kind of actions is totally forbidden.
> According to Telecom and privacy-Law a provider may only give
> information about its clients to the court when  properly summoned to
> do so. 

Not only in Belgium, but also in the Netherlands.
XS4all has very clear statements about this.

See following articles:

Buma/Stemra hekelt providers
http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/31160
        
Buma/Stemra: Xs4all hypocriet; Wanadoo weigert verzoeken
http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/36931

The law says:
providers are obliged to follow privacy laws and cannot give out 
personal details of its customers to whomever asks for it.
secondly, clients of providers are forbidden to break copyright law.

XS4All adheres to both laws:
it refuses to give out user-details to the music-industry,
and clearly mentions that users are not allowed to break the law.

Buma/Stemra doesn't go after clients of XS4All ... because they cannot 
find any that breaks copyright law in the first place.

... Therefore XS4ALL is a hypocrite.

Welcome to the twisted logic of the music industry!


Q&A about the letter BREIN sends can be found the newsletter of BITS OF 
FREEDOM: http://www.bof.nl/nieuwsbrief/nieuwsbrief_2005_6.html


This article is also very interesting:
Nederlandse ISP's snel te intimideren
Tekst Multatuli klakkeloos verwijderd
http://zdnet.be/news.cfm?id=40067

Censoring The Net With A Hotmail Account
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/09/1929259&tid=153&tid=17

(the same test could be performed with Belgian ISPS.)




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