Posts Tagged ‘anonymity’

In September, the Swiss Federal Court ruled that an anti-piracy company in Switzerland, Logistep, must cease collecting the IP addresses of users sharing files on peer-to-peer networks. IP addresses are used to route communications between computers connected to the internet, and could be said to work in a similar way to postcodes.  A number of [...]

We have previously written about anonymity online here in relation to Norwich Pharmacal orders in the UK, it is a very topical subject, lying at the intersection of freedom of speech, and defamation law. Now recent events have brought a related activity, termed CyberSLAPPing, back into the limelight. If you hadn’t heard, to CyberSLAPP is [...]