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German laws are a holy godsend for abusive patent, copyright and IP trolls, plus the music record and film giants. GEMA and Alex Springer come to mind. Plus the
by ChuckNorris89 4y ago
German laws are a holy godsend for abusive patent, copyright and IP trolls, plus the music record and film giants. GEMA and Alex Springer come to mind. Plus the bazillion scummy Bavarian law firms that act like the mafia and make a living by shaking down people who torrented an MP3.
Honest question: Can't we have an unified EU set of sane IP laws that supersede the shitty ones from Germany and make them illegal?
We abolished roaming charges and have a unified border across Schengen and a unified currency in the Eurozone and soon the whole consumer industry including Apple will be on USB-C.
If those were possible, surely we can fix EU IP laws.
- mschuster91 4y agoC&D letters are a common thing across many jurisdictions. Behave like you're supposed to and you won't get hit with them. Seriously, GDPR has been around for over four years now, everyone should have gotten the message now that sending data to third parties without consent is an absolute no-go.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoYes, C&D letters are common everywhere, but that doesn't mean that the laws and implementation unde which they can be sent can't be flawed, leading to exploitative loopholes, as no other European jurisdiction is such a paradise for rampant abuse by any $BIG_CORP like in Germany.
- mschuster91 4y agoThe law in question is the GDPR, universal across Europe. The thing why Germany is so much in the focus because we have a lot of privacy activists on one hand and a lot of experienced lawyers with too much time on their hands on the other.