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Why would EasyDNS even write about this? I was under the impression that businesses not infrequently receive threatening letters from legal firms, and that a n
by TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
Why would EasyDNS even write about this?
I was under the impression that businesses not infrequently receive threatening letters from legal firms, and that a non-trivial portion of these can’t be acted upon as they don’t follow establish legal norms.
I was also under the impression that only the public prosecutor can charge someone with a criminal offence?
- luckylion 7y ago> I was also under the impression that only the public prosecutor can charge someone with a criminal offence? Iirc: the way it works in Germany is that they'd file a criminal complaint, the public prosecutor tries to get the data from the companies / will get a court order to get the data, and the original lawyer will be able to view the information as a joint plaintiff. This was very popular when file sharing was a thing in Germany: the prosecutors would investigate for copyright infringement to get the customer data for a certain IP from the ISP. The lawyers would then initiate civil proceedings and claim large damages.
- justinclift 7y agoAs a guess, so future people wanting to threaten them can see how it's likely to go.