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 signed a “voluntary” agreement to maintain and enforce a website blacklist – a list that will be held in secrecy.
Australians may know this debate all [...]
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.
When we first reported on the story, we had only the information on what had happened. Now it seems as though videos of what had transpired is [...]
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.
After an unusually long time without announcements, EDRI posted observations of the ‘Freedom, Not Fear’ campaign. The report contains the following:
After last year’s demonstration for [...]
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 whether or not a crime was committed. Now imagine thousands of Germans marching in protest. The German protests took place over last weekend [...]
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 the EFF warrentless wiretapping case today. If, however, one asks a German privacy advocate about ISPs illegally breaching privacy, there’s a good chance that [...]
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 GPL violations, but that is what has happened recently. Skype has recently lost an appeals court decision in a German court over GPL violations [...]
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 file-sharers should be banned from the internet.
In the same vain as the Irish music industry suing Internet Service Providers for copyright infringement. According to [...]
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 was an attempt to deter file-sharers, making it seem as though one couldn’t get away with it in Germany. A new report on Heise Online seems [...]
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 decrease in the number of legal downloads as well as physical CD sales, the German Industry has decided to increase the number of charges filed against [...]
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 behavior in the most popular file sharing networks during the last six months.
P2P traffic generated by Internet file sharing is still on the rise in [...]
