The owner of an Internet connection used for copyright infringement cannot automatically be exonerated from liability simply by invoking his or her right to privacy, the Court of Justice of the EU states in a judgment returned on Thursday 18 October (case C-149/17).
In 2010, an audiobook was shared, via the computer of a Mr Strotzer, with an unlimited number of users of a peer-to-peer Internet exchange. The publishing company Bastei Lübbe, which owns the copyright, went before the courts in...