Blocking injunctions against ISPs in Sweden 2.0 beta – the rise of the interim injunction? (Part 1)

Kacper SzkalejJosef K. was minding his own business when one morning, even though he knew he had done nothing wrong, he was arrested. This was the beginning of his trial. In his masterpiece entitled The Trial, Franz Kafka tells, among many things, the story of a man trying to interact with a preposterous system of justice. Almost 100 years after the publication of The Trial, in a world where copyright is being infringed in a plethora of ways, ISPs are minding their own business when they are suddenly summoned to become the addressee of a website blocking injunction. The practice of applying for such injunctions is an established tactic in online enforcement of European copyright law, made possible by Article 8(3) InfoSoc Directive in combination with UPC Telekabel Wien v Constantin Film C-314/12. Essentially an ISP may be ordered to block its customers’ access to a webpage because the operator of that webpage is considered to use the services of the ISP to infringe…

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