German ISP confidentiality
p2pnet.net News:- ISPs in Hamburg, Germany, can’t be forced to provide customer data to Big Music, “even when illegal copying is suspected,” the Higher Regional Court has ruled.
“There is no legal basis for demanding customer data,” continues The Register. “ISPs, the court argues, aren’t part of the criminal act. They merely provide access to the web.”
This overturns an earlier Hamburg District Court decision, “which had granted record companies access to customer data after they discovered an FTP server where numbers by German band Rammstein could be downloaded for free,” says The Register, adding:
“Experts believe that the setback for the record industry is only temporary as legislators in Germany are drafting a new Telemedia Act, granting the recording industry more freedom in obtaining data from internet service providers.”
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The Register – Court rules for German ISPs in P2P identities case, May 17, 2005
May 18th, 2005 at 4:51 am
âExperts believe that the setback for the record industry is only temporary as legislators in Germany are drafting a new Telemedia Act, granting the recording industry more freedom in obtaining data from internet service providers.â
The courts of law weigh the facts and allows fair representation by both sides while politics weighs the contributions and lobbying in backroom deals behind closed doors…
TT
May 18th, 2005 at 6:28 am
So what’s new? This is the way it’s always been. It’s just that now we have access to “uncontrolled” or perhaps only “less controlled” information mediums and are now more aware of it.
Which is why governments are caving in to these cartels. They don’t want us knowing what they’re up to with our taxes, and if they can’t control the media we might find out things they’d rather we didn’t know.
May 18th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
http://p2pnet.net/story/4118