Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 29 mei 2015

Onder 2.1.4 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 29 mei 2015

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 29 mei 2015, ECLI:NL:PHR:2015:729.

In common BT parlance, a user providing upload access to a file is a “seeder”, and one seeking to download it is a “leecher”. “Torrent” files themselves in principle do not host any copyright content, but merely point the would-be downloader towards users who are likely to be able to supply such content (or parts of it). It is noticeable that this is not dissimilar to the role played by search engines such as Google which also point searchers towards files hosted by other users, while failing to host any such content themselves (or only for short periods, or only in small fragments) – we will return to this point in the discussion on the legal liability of P2P intermediaries below. An excellent slightly more poetic description of how the BitTorrent protocol operates can be found in a recent Australian case, Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Limited50.

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