Copyright Infringment And Blaming Someone Else For Wifi Use

Large scale copyright infringement has been a significant problem for many in the creative industries. Place your book, film or song online, and it is almost inevitable that it will be copied. Peer to peer sharing networks have generated litigation around the world. With wireless connections now commonplace (and often not secure), downloading illegal content over a wireless network registered to someone else was an easy way to avoid detection.

Copyright infringement

Which brings us to a dispute referred by the German courts to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Bastei Lübbe is the holder of the copyright and related rights in the audio version of a book. Mr Strotzer is the owner of an internet connection through which that audio book was shared, for the purpose of downloading, with an unlimited number of users of a peer-to-peer internet exchange. An expert attributed the IP address in question to Mr Strotzer.