German lawyer in interview with TorrentFreak
am 15.01.2008 von http://log.handakte.de/
In an interview with TorrentFreak, Christian Solmecke, a lawyer in Germany who defends people in Germany accused by Big 4 record companies of unauthorized file sharing, answers questions on the state of the law in Germany.
Among other things he points out that the record companies had been invoking the jurisdiction of Germany’s criminal courts to find …
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In 2007, Germany was of the world’s most risky places to share files with an estimated 200,000 people receiving threats of legal action. We talk to a lawyer helping to defend five hundred of them, examine the legality of tracking systems an…
