Independent ISP Distributel fighting moviemakers over customer privacy

MONTREAL – “Technological advances, including the Internet, are a significant benefit to society but technology should not be employed as a tool to obliterate the privacy rights our society also deems so important.” So says the Statement of Facts submitted by independent ISP Distributel opposing a January motion filed by movie production companies NGN Prima Productions and Riding Films who say some of the customers of the ISP have been illegally downloading and copying three different films, violating their copyrights. The ISP is opposing the film companies’ demand that it turn over personal information of over two dozen of its...