nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b1c3ab625c95e51c DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250318s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b1c3ab625c95e51c doi eng 342 23 Westkamp, Guido Author aut Anonymity and Surveillance, Creativity and Copyright - Disrupting the Balance Between Users, Authors, Exploiters, and Platforms  Westkamp, Guido Verfassungsblog 2025-03-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Anonymity Copyright Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market EU EU Charter La Quadrature du Net II UrhDAG (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/anonymity-and-surveillance-creativity-and-copyright/ raw object