Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:30PM from the paying-the-price dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "Thousands of German users that have used a porn website to stream shows have received threatening letters from a local law firm demanding €250 ($344) per certain watched clips, Chip.de reports. Apparently, a Swiss-based firm that owns the content hosted by porn site Redtube has tasked a law firm with collecting fines for each of its shows that was streamed online in the region. The law firm has apparently received a go ahead from a local court, and as many as ten thousand warnings may have been set to users, for porn shows watched in August."

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What do you call a bunch of unhappy Germans? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-11 18:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Sauerkrauts.
Re: Ah, so every german is a judge. by __aajxhe7746 · 2013-12-12 00:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect
Re:Oh Germany by skine · 2013-12-12 00:16 · Score: 3, Funny

It is better to let nine innocent men be extorted than to let one guilty man go free.
Or something along those lines.