That German publisher Heise tells us that after the RIAA is sueing file sharers again, now also the German phonographic industry IFPI has filed 68 complaints against currently unknown file sharers.
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The accused persons are said to have provided copyrighted music to the Internet "in enormous ammounts" and offered them for download. By doing so, they ignored the rights of authors, composers, artists and media manufacturers. They can be identified by their ISPs from their IP adresses. Because the ISPs don't give the identities to the copyright holders, the IFPI filed complaints against unknown. |
In Germany many ISPs unfortunately log the IP adresses of their users, even if they use a flatrate for their Internet access, although it's against German privacy laws to record this data when it is not needed for billing. This way the state attorney can force the ISPs to reveal the identities of these fileshareing users.
Time will tell if the IFPI will succeed with their complaints. Meanwhile feel free to comment this topic or to talk about legal alternatives in our Music Downloads, P2P & Legal Issues Forum on Club CD Freaks.
Source: Heise.de
