Beware of downloading illegal series and movies, they could track your IP

The European Court of Justice has forced an operator to provide the data of the IPs that downloaded illegal content. Although the pirating of series and movies on the internet is less and less common, especially thanks to the proliferation of multiple VOD services, it still exists and the European Court of Justice is willing to put an end to this practice, for which it is already working in a new legislation that will strike down pirate television and movies. Beware of downloading illegal series and movies, they could track your IP.

And to work in this direction, the CJEU, has given the reason to the demand of a content creator who has denounced the operator Telenet BVBA, demanding that it provide the IPs of those users who had downloaded illegal content, after the company refuse at first to facilitate them.

According to the judgment of the European Union, if you have downloaded content over the internet through a P2P connection, you are already sharing your IP address and therefore it can be claimed by a content creator, unless the request is abusive or certain requirements are not met. .

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A sentence that has already been handed down here in Spain when several Euskaltel users were denounced for illegally downloading content. The case was taken to two courts, and while some of them were acquitted, many others were identified through their IP address and were forced to pay a fine of 150 for the films and 100 for each chapter of the series obtained in a way. illicit.

In fact, it is increasingly common for production companies or content creators to request operators, through a court order, to block their users' access to pages where audiovisual products can be obtained illegally.