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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Re:Was it advertised as free? by fazig · 2013-12-11 19:17 · Score: 5, Informative

According to more recent reports (German) the Court was fooled by this alleged law firm. They've presented the incident to the court as peer to peer file-sharing of copyright protected data, the Court ruled accordingly.
Re:Info about "The Archive AG" by mystuff · 2013-12-11 20:31 · Score: 5, Informative

This was reported on the Dutch site Tweakers as being a hoax, as reported by the layyers office itself here. Translations here and here respectively.