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"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court

Posted by timothy on Friday November 23, 2012 @01:03PM from the your-virtual-papers-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A court in Hamburg, Germany, has granted an injunction against a user of the anonymous and encrypted file-sharing network RetroShare. RetroShare users exchange data through encrypted transfers and the network setup ensures that the true sender of the file is always obfuscated. The court, however, has now ruled that RetroShare users who act as an exit node are liable for the encrypted traffic that's sent by others."

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Re:Ah, German courts... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-23 13:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Irrelevant since October 1946.
Not as irrelevant as the US justice system bought and paid by the Corporations of America.
Yeah, I'll trust the German legal system many times over before even coinsidering the American one.
Re:I don't understand German law but... by MrNaz · 2012-11-23 17:00 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Cannon is the plural of cannon.

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