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German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show

JagsLive tips the news that German customs agents have shown up in force to raid the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. (The last time we discussed news like this was during CeBIT, in Hanover, last March.) 220 customs agents seized electronic gear from 69 different booths at IFA. The Register reports that this raid, like the one last spring, was touched off after complaints by patent firm Sisvel. "They seized equipment which will now be checked for evidence of patent breaches. A spokesman for German Customs told us: 'We've raided 69 companies today. We have seized equipment including flat-screen TVs, CD players, set-top boxes and MP3 players.'"

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  1. First the Russians, now the Germans... by tjstork · · Score: -1, Troll

    Christ almighty, maybe it is time for the Americans to start bombing....

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    This is my sig.
    1. Re:First the Russians, now the Germans... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      When did those warmongerers ever stop bombing?
      Maybe if Americans didn't have such tiny penises...

  2. In Soviet Germany, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Patents s

    oh fuck I give up

    GOATSE is to the GNAA, CH is to the Slovak Island.

  3. Arbeit macht frei? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Always nice to see the Germans living up to their well deserved reputation! :^)

  4. Just Germans being Germans by Simonetta · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is just Germans being German, but still it is incredibly stupid.

      Isn't Germany the place where it is illegal for stores to put items on sale, except for a few days each year? Wasn't this law passed by Hitler (opps, my bad...can't say that word in Deutschland) because Jewish store owners were selling their inventory below cost in order to get the funds together to escape the holocast? Isn't it kept on the books and still enforced (against mostly Turks and other minorities running little stores in minority neighborhoods) simply because it is the German Law and German Law must be obeyed regardless of how mean and stupid and senseless it is? Good thing that they don't grow cotton in Germany, otherwise they would still have colored drinking fountains.

        Good thing too that the Soviets and the Americans burned the whole country to the ground, killed millions of them, and chased the few good Germans (oh, excuse me, I meant to say 'the Nazis') to the ends of the earth. Otherwise they would still be throwing Jews, Gipsies, and homos into the gas chambers. After all, the law is the law, and it must be obeyed!

        Jawohl!

  5. Companies will not demo/sell products in Germany by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is an extremely stupid move. Companies will stop demoing/selling products in Germany.

    Unbelievable move. Germany is biting the hand that feeds it.

  6. who really 'owns' anything/everything? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  7. Good job, Germany. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Trying to restore the Third Reich, eh?