I don't see how this enforcement would be practical.
German Court Says Domain Registrars Are Responsible for Content on a Website
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is also important to note that in difference to the US court rulings cannot be used as reference for future cases in Germany.
No way? I thought the supreme court was like ..... supreme?
Courts within Civil Law systems are there just to interpret and enforce the law, not to create it. What individual courts decide is not binding on anyone but the involved parties.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany is not the EU and this is not final; it'll never pass EU wide nor will it in Germany for that matter.
Germany is the epitome of the EU. Pass or not Germany and the EU has way more regulation then the US. My point was people who like to complain about regulation here should take a peek across the pond.
My impression is that EU countries have annoyingly too much regulation for businesses and tend to afford individuals much more freedom than people have in the US. In the US, it seems to be the other way around.
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#24Yeah and Mercedes is responsible for my speeding ticket. They purposefully make their cars able to exceed the speed limit of 50km/h inside cities.
I have always wondered why one is able to sell a car that can go over 100mph when the maximum speed allowed on the roads in my country is 70mph and being caught going 100mph will land you in jail.
We already know people cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" so high speed incidents will, and do, occur.
As Richard Miller wrote in SQUED [1]
"Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that has never driven a car."
[1] http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/richard+m...
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#25Thank 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.
I'm also thankful for non existing information on non existing technologies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Uses
https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions-old/wiki...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany is not the EU and this is not final; it'll never pass EU wide nor will it in Germany for that matter.
Germany is the epitome of the EU. Pass or not Germany and the EU has way more regulation then the US. My point was people who like to complain about regulation here should take a peek across the pond.
We definitely have too much regulation for companies here, but on the other hand you cannot really gain much with lawsuits as everyone does kind of act to what is common sense. Unless you did something which is obviously wrong (defraud taxes, steal actual money), no matter what comes out of court usually doesn't impact much / anything for companies. Unlike the US I believe.
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#27Yeah and Mercedes is responsible for my speeding ticket. They purposefully make their cars able to exceed the speed limit of 50km/h inside cities.
I have always wondered why one is able to sell a car that can go over 100mph when the maximum speed allowed on the roads in my country is 70mph and being caught going 100mph will land you in jail. We already know people cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" so high speed incidents will, and do, occur. As Richard Miller wrote in SQUED [1] "Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that ha…
I don't know about your country, but in some countries there are private race tracks where you can speed legally for a few thousand bucks.
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#28That's like saying the president is responsible for all crimes in the country.
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#29Yeah and Mercedes is responsible for my speeding ticket. They purposefully make their cars able to exceed the speed limit of 50km/h inside cities.
I have always wondered why one is able to sell a car that can go over 100mph when the maximum speed allowed on the roads in my country is 70mph and being caught going 100mph will land you in jail. We already know people cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" so high speed incidents will, and do, occur. As Richard Miller wrote in SQUED [1] "Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that ha…
> I have always wondered why one is able to sell a car that can go over 100mph when the maximum speed allowed on the roads in my country is 70mph and being caught going 100mph will land you in jail
What if you are rich and you have your own private road where you can drive at any speed you want.
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#30Yeah and Mercedes is responsible for my speeding ticket. They purposefully make their cars able to exceed the speed limit of 50km/h inside cities.
I have always wondered why one is able to sell a car that can go over 100mph when the maximum speed allowed on the roads in my country is 70mph and being caught going 100mph will land you in jail. We already know people cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" so high speed incidents will, and do, occur. As Richard Miller wrote in SQUED [1] "Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that ha…
Apparently, the Japanese version of the Nissan GTR has software that limits the vehicle's maximum speed unless it is near a Nissan approved racetrack.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GT-R#Aftermarket_tuning