Court Mandates Music Filtering for ISP

The Court of First Instance in Belgium issued a decision two weeks ago in a copyright infringement case brought by the Belgian music collecting society SABAM against Scarlet, an ISP formerly known as Tiscali. In the decision, the court ordered Scarlet to implement filtering within six months in order to remove copyrighted music from its network. An unnamed court-appointed expert identified several technologies -- including Audible Magic's acoustic fingerprinting -- that Scarlet could use to meet the court's requirements.