Germany Forces ISPs to Agree to Web Filtering
For those who have been following the internet filtering debates, this latest development in Germany might ring a few bells. The German government and many of the German ISPs ...
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German GEMA Copyright Protest Posted on YouTube
We noted a very interesting case in Germany where an artist sent 70,200 forms to GEMA in a truck - the whole thing is currently available on YouTube.
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Freedom Not Fear Campaign Going from Europe-Wide to Worldwide
Protests against over-reaching surveillance powers isn't just for Europeans anymore - the campaign appears to be expected to make it all the way to the United States among other countries.
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Massive Data Retention Protests Hit Germany, Expected to Spread Across Europe
Imagine that every phone call, fax, e-mail, instant message and packet of information that you sent and received was captured by your government and stored for two years, regardless of ...
German ISP and Telecommunications Company Raided Over Spy Scandal
The idea of a telecommunications company abusing its power to breach privacy has been anywhere from tossed around a few years back to an outright political battle as seen in ...
Skype Violated the GPL – German Appeals Court
It's difficult to say whether or not Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype who also created Kazaa, had envisioned that his software would one day be drug through the courts over ...
German Secretary of Culture Wants to Cut Off File-sharers from the Internet
It hasn't been looking good for the three strike policy in Europe to cut off file-sharers from the internet, but that isn't stopping one politician from Germany from demanding that ...
German Government – Data Retention is for Terrorists, Not Copyright Infringers
Last year, ZeroPaid reported on the German music industry saying it would sue 1000 file-sharers every month in the year of 2007.
This crackdown on copyright infringement ...
German Music Industry to target 1000 P2P users a month in 2007
The German music industry plans to answer its decreasing CD sales revenues by increasing the number of German file-sharers it will sue in 2007.
Faced with an ever rising ...
New ipoque Survey Confirms the Continuing Boom of P2P File Sharing (Press Release)
P2P traffic generated by Internet file sharing is still on the rise in Germany. ipoque, provider of solutions for Internet traffic management and analysis, has conducted a survey on user ...
German court rules used software licenses illegal
A higher German court has ruled to uphold a decision by a lower court to ban the sale of used software licenses, in a case involving a subsidiary of Oracle.
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Germany: The Right To Copy
Accompanied by heavy lobbying, the German authorities are currently debating an amendment to the Copyright Act - the so-called `second basket' of copyright reform.
In the autumn of 2003, Germany transposed ...
German experts want search engines to be monitored
German experts at a Berlin seminar this week argued that search engines need to be more regulated. They want companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to exercise editorial control ...
German police lock up AND sue eDonkey file sharers
German police have filed criminal charges against more than 2,000 people accused of using the eDonkey file-sharing network to share copyrighted music illegally, the recording industry's trade group said Tuesday.
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Germans face 2 years for p2p activity
GERMANS risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday. Anybody who downloads films for commercial use could ...
