ODEX opens Singtel’s can of worms
The Singapore blogosphere is filled with the comments about ODEX losing its case against Pacific Internet for the later to disclose the identities of their subscribers whose IP addressed tracked for illegaly downloaded ODEX distributed animme.
The judge that disclosed the reason for dismissing the case raise several points about copyrights and introduced many of the "Telecommunications Competition Code".
"3. For Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, the court ruled that Odex had to prove an “extremely strong prima facie case”," wrote Siew Kum Hong.
"The judge’s rationale for this was that Pacnet owed its subscribers a duty of confidentiality under the Telecommunications Competition Code, and hence he would not grant the order unless Odex could satisfy that burden of proof."
The Singapore blogosphere is also aware that Singtel consented to Odex’s application.
Here’s the question for Singtel.
If there is a Telecommunications Competition Code in Singapore that states that the ISPs "owed its subscribers a duty of confidentiality" and if Singtel did not resist or attempt to resist Odex’s application, does this mean that Singtel did not perform one of its duties as an ISP stated in the Telecommunications Competition Code?
