http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/b1c3ab625c95e51c https://verfassungsblog.de/anonymity-and-surveillance-creativity-and-copyright/ Anonymity and Surveillance, Creativity and Copyright - Disrupting the Balance Between Users, Authors, Exploiters, and Platforms  Westkamp, Guido eng 2025-03-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Anonymity Copyright Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market EU EU Charter La Quadrature du Net II UrhDAG EU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The emergence of digital networks over the past decades has presented a problem for copyright exploiters. Thus, they resorted to strategic enforcement targeting individual users. However, the users would often remain anonymous due to the lack of access to traffic data revealing their identity. But the decision in La Quadrature du Net II – permitting retention and disclosure of traffic data for minor offences – has the adverse effect: it incentivises enforcement strategies targeting users and requiring platforms to hand over such data.