Mircom International Content Management v Telenet and others (C-597/19) Advocate General (AG) Szpunar has advised that companies deemed to be "copyright trolls" should not be entitled to the information (e.g. IP addresses) of users sharing copyright-protected content on peer-to-peer networks, in order to collect damages from them for infringement. The opinion also provided clarity on a much-discussed topic: users who are sharing copyright-protected works on peer-to-peer networks, even if it is only snippets of the works, are carrying out acts of communication to the public. The facts Mircom is a Cyprus-based company that holds licences for the communication to the public of erotic films on peer-to-peer networks and internet file-sharing networks in Europe. Under the agreements with the producers of those films, Mircom is required to take legal action in its own name against perpetrators of copyright infringement on those networks, in order to obtain compensation, 50% of which it can keep for itself and 50% which it must pass on to the producers.