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German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Re: German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Post by th0br0 »

This ruling is not final yet, and Key-Systems is likely to go into revision. (see [1], German)

Especially the consequences this would have for DNS changes etc., it is highly unlikely that a higher instance won't overturn the ruling although IANAL.

[1] http://www.golem.de/news/landgericht-saarbruecken-domain-reg...

Re: German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Post by tluyben2 »

us0r wrote: post #4

People like to complain about laws/regulation/tax/etc. in the US but it is on an entirely different level in the EU.

Germany is not the EU and this is not final; it'll never pass EU wide nor will it in Germany for that matter.

Re: German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Post by halfdan »

us0r wrote: post #4

People like to complain about laws/regulation/tax/etc. in the US but it is on an entirely different level in the EU.

It is also important to note that in difference to the US court rulings cannot be used as reference for future cases in Germany.

Re: German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Post by julioademar »

halfdan wrote: post #6
us0r wrote: post #4

People like to complain about laws/regulation/tax/etc. in the US but it is on an entirely different level in the EU.

It is also important to note that in difference to the US court rulings cannot be used as reference for future cases in Germany.

Yea, we're all pretty sane over here.

Re: German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website

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Post by thisiswrong »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #3

Thank god there's no other way to address a server on the Internet, and that this measure will once and for all stop all copyright infringements, whilst being utterly implementable and policable.

And thank the lord that governments like those of the UK don't already send out unlawful extrajudicial domain termination requests to registrars. Thank god systems like NameCoin and P2P distributed websites are not being developed as we speak by internet visionaries.
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