Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
29 March 2017

The Copyright Industry's So-Called "Value Gap" Is Actually an Innovation Gap

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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...
23 November 2013

Windows 8+TPM: Germany Warns of 'Loss of Control'

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Last year, I wrote about some serious issues with Microsoft's Secure Boot Technology in Windows 8. It seems that the German govern...
27 October 2013

German Supreme Court Confirms RapidShare Must Police The Internet And Restrict Anonymous Use

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A post on TorrentFreak updates us on the continuing saga of the file-hosting site RapidShare . The Supreme Court in Germany has apparent...
26 October 2013

German Minister Calls Security A 'Super Fundamental Right' That Outranks Privacy; German Press Call Him 'Idiot In Charge'

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One of the striking features of the Snowden story is that there has been no serious attempt to deny the main claims about massive, global...
19 September 2013

Germany's Spies Have NSA Envy: Currently Working To Build Their Own Comprehensive Snooping System

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One unfortunate knock-on effect of the revelations about the extent of NSA information gathering seems to be that the spies in other cou...

Is The US Using Prism To Engage In Commercial Espionage Against Germany And Others?

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As we noted last week, one of the key claims following the revelations about the Prism program was that it was aimed at those outside ...
31 March 2013

If Microsoft Shuts Down Google Maps In Germany, How Does That Benefit The Public?

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Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...

German Newspaper 'Snippet' Law Passes: Watered Down, But Still Stupid

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For a year now, Techdirt has been following the sorry saga of Germany's attempt to make search engines and others pay for licenses t...
17 March 2013

Top German Police Officer: 'Anyone On The Internet Has Left The Private Sphere'

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The Internet as a mass medium is still relatively young, so it's no surprise that its function in society and in our daily lives is s...
10 March 2013

The Continuing Disaster Of Open Government In Germany

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Recently, Techdirt noted that the European "database right" could pose a threat to releasing public data there. But that assu...
10 February 2013

German Court Recognizes That An Internet Connection Is Now Indispensable For Modern Life

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The German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe has acknowledged that an Internet connection is indispensable for life in the modern worl...
08 December 2012

German Chancellor Says Only Print Media Can Teach You 'Real' Reading

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Angela Merkel may be Germany's Chancellor, and therefore a busy woman, but since she trained as a chemist , you might expect her to ha...

Iran's Latest Move To Stifle Dissent: Requiring ID Cards To Go Online

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For a while, Techdirt has been tracking Iran's continuing efforts to throttle its citizens' access to troublesome materials onlin...

A Tale of Two Lock-ins

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Yesterday I was reviewing Mozilla's current position in the browser sector and its wider achievements in the Web world. One thing ...

Recording Industry Rep Suggests Parents Should Slap Their Children To Stop Piracy

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One of the many problems with the "guilty until proven innocent" approach to tackling unauthorized filesharing is that it's...
11 November 2012

German Company Wants To Protect Its Use Of The '@' Sign: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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A little while back, Techdirt wrote about a rather brave French company that tried to trademark the Anonymous logo. Now Der Spiegel is r...
13 October 2012

German Gov't Inadvertently Reveals Police Monitor Gmail, Skype, Facebook & Use Snooping Malware

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Transparency is worth having for itself, since governments often tend to behave a little better when they know that someone is watching. ...

Before and After ACTA - the Video

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In the last year I've written what some might have felt were rather too many thousand words about ACTA. But I'd argue that it wa...

German Pirate Party Makes Some Shockingly Unshocking Proposals For Copyright Reform

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As Techdirt has reported, after a year of amazing successes, the German Pirate Party is going through something of a bad patch at the m...
29 September 2012

Top Pirate Party Member Has DMCA Takedown Notices Issued In Her Name

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Julia Schramm is one of the rising stars of the German Pirate Party: in April, when she was just 27 years old, she was elected to the nat...