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"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court
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."
Except common carriers are usually legitimate carriers. This network was specifically designed and is commonly used for illegal file sharing. People using it know exactly that they are part of it and they are encouraging and helping it. Kind of like Google vs. The Pirate Bay. One is a search engine designed and used to find Information on the Internet while the other is designed and used to find magnet links to torrents containing pirated (illegal) material.
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.
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