--- See also the U.S. version: http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/2nd/009185.html "The injunction primarily bars the Appellants from posting DeCSS on their web site and from knowingly linking their web site to any other web site on which DeCSS is posted. We affirm." -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: German appeals court outlaws links to websites offering circumvention technology [signed] Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:01:22 +0200 From: Matthias Spielkamp [c] To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> References: <42F80A61.8000000@private> Declan, your Politech readers might be interested in this piece of international perspective: A Munich court of appeal upheld a lower court ruling, demanding that German IT news service Heise Online remove a link to Slysoft.com, an Antigua based company selling software enabling users to make copies of copy-protected CDs and DVDs. Legal experts criticised the decision as endangering press freedom. http://www.immateriblog.de/archives/000254.html Best, Matthias P.S.: Please erase my eMail address (for spam reasons). -- Matthias Spielkamp | Berlin | www.immateriblog.de GPG: 1B9A 87CB 953F 4648 A131 328A 7424 7471 D2DA 8307 _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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