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In Germany in particular there exists a nasty habit of sending C&D letters to people for all kinds of minor rule violations. You can either sign these letters a
by nils-m-holm 7y ago
In Germany in particular there exists a nasty habit of sending C&D letters to people for all kinds of minor rule violations. You can either sign these letters and pay an (often substantial) fee or get a lawyer. Or you can try to comply in advance, often to a ridiculous degree, which I do.
So I may have such a strong opinion on the GDPR because I live in Germany.
- tluyben2 7y ago> So I may have such a strong opinion on the GDPR because I live in Germany. Those C&Ds are pretty insane: I heard about them before, what are they for? In NL we had, for a little bit, lawyers who searched out illegal photograph usage and tried those letters. But according to Dutch law, I can remove the picture (we had a large image site) and that's it. So they made $0 of us, not did the lawyers. Is it something similar?
- nils-m-holm 7y agoIn Germany, this used to be quite a lucrative business model for lawyers, and it was insane indeed! It got a little less profitable when the government put a cap on the fees, but I am afraid it it still a thing. Dutch law sounds much more reasonable!
- tluyben2 7y agoMy friend with a business there said that it is not too hard or expensive to get a lawyer to spend a few minutes sending a standard response and that they (almost always) back off with even the slightest resistance? Annoying but...
- nils-m-holm 7y agoTrue, but still time wasted on an avoidable issue! Well, that's how I view it.