1. The need for a balance between individuals' rights to privacy and IP rights enforcement has never been greater.rn2. IP rights holders believe they should be permitted access to information to stop infringement, however file sharers argue they should be allowed access to content shared by others, particularly where such content is not made available by the IP rights holder.rn3. ISPs in the UK, Japan and Spain have been involved in various disputes between IP rights holders and service users, with rights holders increasingly willing to take ISPs to court.rn4. Privacy can protect IP rights holders too.rn5. Unless IP rights holders find a way of balancing their exclusive right to control the use of their IP rights with individuals' rights to and reasonable expectations of privacy, then the future of enforcement will be challenging.
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