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German Prosecutors Stop Identifying File Sharers on Behalf of RIAA

Authored by Jay Baage on August 3, 2007 - 3:38am.
Offenburg, Germany - The Local Court (AG) in Offenburg has prohibited a local public prosecutor's office from obtaining the personal data from an ISP that match the IP addresses of alleged P2P network users citing citing "obvious disproportionateness”.

The decision reached in this case is not the first ruling against the European counterpart of the RIAA to use German 'criminal' proceedings to get to allegedly file sharing subscribers, according to the German-language web site Heise Online.

German prosecutors should no longer help the RIAA identify supposed file sharers, since offering a few copyright-protected music tracks via a P2P network client was “a petty offense,” the court declared.

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Published in DMW Daily, August 3, 2007
tags: Internet | Law | P2P | Music | Europe | Germany | RIAA | Copyrights |



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