Anti-Piracy Firm Banned In Its Own Country

An anti-piracy firm getting banned for breaching privacy laws? Now that is some funny stuff right there, don’t you think?

A notorious Switzerland-based anti-piracy tracking company has to stop harvesting the IP addresses of citizens using P2P networks. The Swiss High Court ruled that IP addresses constitute personal information and when Logistep collected them without the owner’s knowledge, that amounted to a breach of privacy laws.

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