> Would RIPE be acting on the request of German legal authorities and/or courts, or on some other basis? And how would this be determined? This is a guess but

> Would RIPE be acting on the request of German legal authorities and/or courts, or on some other basis? And how would this be determined? This is a guess but either a) giving out incorrect information (which is a clear basis, all AS operators must be either a person or a legal company, yes you could practically bypass this by registering a shell company but considering that they've used PayPal I'm pretty sure that they have not planned this well) or b) a German or Hessian (it seems that it's registered in Hesse) court might have forcibly transferred the legal entity to the state, in which case since the state now owns the entity they could simply file paperwork to voluntarily relinquish the AS. Depeering is much more easier: all major transit networks have a provision in their contract to terminate the transit if it's unnecessarily burdening their systems or if it is used for malicious purposes.