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> Have eg Tor exit nodes been held legally responsible for eg copyright infringement? Sounds highly counterintuitive. In Germany that's the case. Up until four
by cookiengineer 6y ago
> Have eg Tor exit nodes been held legally responsible for eg copyright infringement? Sounds highly counterintuitive.
In Germany that's the case. Up until four years ago, it was legally impossible to offer free Wi-Fi for restaurants and other venues; and they now have to track at least every legal name of customers that use their Wi-Fi in order to not be held responsible as the Wi-Fi owner.
Technically they would have also to track a photo/ID of each customer if there weren't the GDPR/DSGVO in place that prevents that.
There's also still debate whether or not you have to have passwords in place in order to be not held responsible, which means that customers would have to "register a personal Wi-Fi account" as it's the case with city-provided Wi-Fi access points that are linked to your legal name and address.
That's what the EuGH decided with [1] and [2], the German Bundesgerichtshof before that decided that it's enough to track names only which led to the case being escalated to the European court by Sony Music.
[1] https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht=EuGH&Datum=15.09.2016&Aktenzeichen=C-484%2F14 https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht...
[2] https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-09/cp160099en.pdf https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
- getitstraight 6y agoThe solution is to man up and take your country back from the fascists. Do you really want to live in such a shithole, where you have to register with the Stasi just to use the internet?
- tpoacher 6y agoThat's right! Let's storm the ... wait, nevermind.