IANAL, TINLA. I just had a look at the law concerning service providers (E-Commerce-Gesetz - E-Commerce Law) in Austria. It is quite liberal in its definition o

IANAL, TINLA. I just had a look at the law concerning service providers (E-Commerce-Gesetz - E-Commerce Law) in Austria. It is quite liberal in its definition of a service provider, i.e. it does not only cover commercial service providers, and does not require any kind of license, but basically defines a service provider as a personal or legal entity that "provides a service of information society". Also, it contains several clauses that give providers immunity for the data they store and transmit. However, one explicit requirement is that the provider may not change any of the content transmitted to claim immunity. I am very interested in seeing whether the decryption/encryption of the data will prevent him from claiming immunity. I want to add that Austrian law is very strict when it comes to the presumption of innocence. The right of a suspect not to be named, shown on a picture or otherwise identified is almost abolute (the only exception are suspects on the run, where this could help apprehend them). As an Austrian, I found it very disturbing to read the guy's full name in the ars article, something local media would not be allowed to do. If he is lucky and found innocent in court, the top search result with his name will forever be the ars article.