Small country, significant decision. Coverage from DRMWatch:

Although American legal representatives of both network service providers and content owners are also likely to look closely at this Belgian case, the situation is different in the US. The 2005 Supreme Court ruling in FCC v. Brand X drew a distinction between types of network services that gave US telcos a comfort level that content control features used on their ISPs will not affect common carrier status of their standard telecommunications networks. This comfort level has been a factor in ISPs seeking to collect "tolls" from content providers in exchange for preferential treatment of their content on the networks -- leading to the debate over so-called net neutrality.

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