Internet service providers may be required to sites which infringe the copyright block. That enables an attorney-general of the European Court. It must, however, go to a blockade of a specific website, which the judge imposed.
A copyright owner may be at the court for an order to ask internet service providers to a website that infringes on the copyright block, set, advocate-general Cruz Villalón of the European Court of justice in an Austrian lawsuit that is referred to the EU court of justice. The opinion of the advocate-general is as yet no final judgment in the case, but in many cases, EU judges, in the opinion of the advocate-general.
The isp that the blockade should run has no direct relationship with the website that infringes, writes Villalón, but the provider can be regarded as a party that is used for the infringement of copyright. Therefore, the provider may be forced to be the infringing site to block.
A blockade is, however, a court order is needed, emphasized the attorney general. It should also indicate how the website should be blocked, for example, through a dns or an ip block. Each case must also be balanced, or the interests of the copyright owner, in this case, to outweigh that of the provider.
The attorney general wrote his opinion in a case between two Austrian film companies and the Austrian branch of UPC. The two film companies, Constantin Film and Wega Filmproduktionsgesellschaft, wanted that UPC the access to the streaming site Kino.to would block. Meanwhile the conscious website two and a half years offline, but because of the precedent, the matter is still interesting: if the European Court finds that blockages of websites to go too far, then this will have consequences for business in the Netherlands. Dutch judges would also judge that a blockage is not possible, for example, in the case of Brein against the internet service providers about the blockade of The Pirate Bay.
