German Courts - P2P Lawsuits Unconstitutional
Date : 2008 06 17 Category : Web News
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Many are aware of US-based rights holders trying to apply US laws in other countries. Now there is word that P2P lawsuits in Germany are unconstitutional.
Between the new version of Vuse, the Canadian DMCA, and a new p2p study being released, it may be easy to have missed the report from p2p-blog that covered what happened in the German court system just a little while ago while all the other big news was happening.
Janko Roettgers, the writer of P2P-blog notes that P2P lawsuits have been ruled unconstitutional because an ISP technically can't give out customer information as it has done in the past because it's private information. Interestingly enough, this was one of the main types of arguments used in the Canadian discovery case back in the beginning of 2004.