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German User Fined For Having an Open Wi-Fi

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the half-of-you-are-guilty dept.

Kilrah_il writes "A German citizen was sued for copyright infringement because copyrighted material was downloaded through his network while he was on vacation. Although the court did not find him guilty of copyright infringement, he was fined for not having password-protected his network: 'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation,' the court said."

2 of 563 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I see. by OrangeTide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love my double negatives.

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    “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  2. Re:I see. by tophermeyer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    People figured it was nothing but an extra tax grab and got rid of it.

    Not going to lie, I chuckled a little when I read this. Locals refer to MA as "Tax-achusetts" because of things like that.