Annotation of Judgement in summary proceedings District Court Utrecht of 9 July 2002 (Teleatlas vs. Planet Internet)1
This judgement regards the circumstances under which an internet service provider has to disclose the identity of a subscriber.
Teleatlas produces software, which can be assumed to be protected under copyright laws. Illegal copies of this software are offered for sale on the internet, amongst others on the eBay website www.ebay.com. The seller in this case only identified himself with a Planet Internet e-mail address ([subscriber]@planet.nl), but without disclosing his name or street address. Teleatlas was thus unable to find this seller by means of his advertisement on eBay.
