Re:Optional for each country (Score 1)

Actually it does influence alot other countries, in Austria for example, the ISPA ( internet service providers association ) issued the statement that accordingly to this ruling, the ISP's do not have to give out any personal information about filesharers ( which wasn't done anyway ) without a court order. Funnily enough, since 1.st of January, court orders aren't issued anymore for civil court cases, which includes filesharing. At this moment, in Austria, there is a golden age for filesharers, since the ISP's won't give out the name/address/etc of filesharers without a court order, and court orders aren't issued anymore.