A Belgian ISP by the name of “Scarlet” won something of a victory in copyright law recently. They had been ordered to block “block transfers of copyrighted materials via P2P”. The order was reversed because the judge agreed that the way the Belgian flavor of the RIAA proposed to implement proved to be ineffective.

If you think that the title of this post is a Halloween prank, think again. This isn’t about some ghoulish silliness inspired by the hell driven Halloween mess that goes on all over the place at this time of year, I am not a hamster, I don’t have time for that brand of idiocy. [...]