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Internet service providers not obliged to install general filtering systems to prevent illegal downloading

• Hogan Lovells
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• European Union
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• January 27 2012

In what was both a highly anticipated and expected ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that under EU law a national court cannot impose an injunction requiring an internet service provider (ISP) to install, at its own cost, a wide ranging filtering system in order to tackle illegal downloading using peer to peer (P2P) networks