Worst of Wursts
am 27.01.2005 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. Some bad apples operated the Bockwurst Files until German police last night cracked the software crackers wursthaus. German anti-piracy group GVU tracked the crackers and forced them to side-track to the United States, the Netherlands and Malaysia. Winfuture reports that the site had some 100,000 visitors daily and some 10,000 forum members. Reportedly, the site offered software as …
German law in English website/Deutsches Recht auf Englisch-Site
Transblawg / A non-profit site for texts and links on German law in English has been set up with the help of the German Foreign Office: Centre for German Legal Information I completely missed this until alerted by a comment, but it has been widely announce…
Death by sausage / Bockwursttötung
Transblawg / This is a bit late, but in answer to the person who asked me recently how you could kill someone with a Bockwurst - surely it was too soft to hit someone over the head with? No, it was suffocation. Yahoo News: FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police hav…
Site statistics
Transblawg / Following Ingmar’s example, here are some site statistics for this site, probably for September 2005, as far as I can judge the referrer’s log. The top ten key phrases that led people to this site: drogerie müller alpha bravo charlie…
Perlentaucher.de goes English
Transblawg / Signandsight, Perlentaucher’s English site went online on March 1. It is subtitled ‘Arts, Essays, Ideas from Germany’. Perlentaucher.de is a site that collects, summarizes and links to German-language books and reviews. The English…
$1,000 Fine for Decryption Sale
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. German trade associations representing sound industries note on their joint website today the conviction of a person who sold anti-copy software through an internet auction site. The Paderborn court of first instance assessed…
Tasteless EFL site
Transblawg / I don’t know how I overlooked the englishdroid.com site wittily described by Geoffrey Pullum at language log. bq. Preparation/Execution Quotient: the time spent planning an activity divided by the time spent doing it in class. For example, the…
