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Are german ISPs required to "pass the blame forward"? If not, whats stopping everyone registering themselves as an ISP?
by kasparsklavins 10y ago
Are german ISPs required to "pass the blame forward"?
If not, whats stopping everyone registering themselves as an ISP?
- cocotino 10y agoThe price and the requirements, I guess?
- luckystarr 10y agoIts a hassle. Even larger non-profit organizations (Freifunk for example) which provide free open wifi route their traffic via VPN to a country without "Störerhaftung" (Sweden) to eliminate the risk of getting adhortatory letters.
- AnthonyMouse 10y agoMaybe everyone there should start doing that? Even an individual could provide free wifi but route it through a foreign VPN service. For that matter, with a law that stupid I'm surprised the major ISPs there aren't making hay by offering a VPN service with your internet account and integrating it into their broadband routers.
- lima 10y agoActually, Freifunk Rheinland did register as an ISP and built a sizeable backbone network. They provide internet access to many Freifunk communities without any risk of liability.
- sdoering 10y agoDidn't know this. Thanks for this bit of information here.
- kpcyrd 10y agoYou have to implement Vorratsdatenspeicherung which is basically an API to query who had this IP at a given point in time in case of an investigation.