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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: bill on September 19, 2016, 10:52:04 PM
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Password-protect your Wi-Fi hotspots and ask for user details too, rules ECJ
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/09/19/password-protect-your-wi-fi-hotspots-and-ask-for-user-details-too-rules-ecj/
Europeans who provide Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t liable for copyright violations by the strangers who use them, according to Europe’s top court.
However, there’s a whopping big “but.”
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) also ruled that the holders of infringed copyrights can demand that those Wi-Fi hotspots be password-protected to deter future violations.
What’s more, users will be required to “reveal their identity to be prevented from acting anonymously.”
What a brilliant plan to stop the spread of open WiFi...