Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)

The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrucken (a city in Germany) concluded Key-Systems, a German-based registrar, can be held secondarily liable for the infringing actions of a customer if it fails to take action if rightsholders point out "obvious" copyright infringing activity online. From a report: This means that, if a site owner is unresponsive to takedown requests, Key-Systems and other registrars can be required to take a domain name offline, even when the infringing activity is limited to a single page. The local music group BVMI is happy with the outcome of the case. They believe it will help copyright holders to take action against infringing activity. "This is a further important clarification in the legal space of the internet, helping it to become clearer and fairer for creatives and their partners," says Rene Houareau, BVMI's Managing Director Legal & Political Affairs. "The [court] affirms, with clearly outlined criteria, the responsibility of so-called registrars and thus gives affected rightsholders an important legal tool to defend themselves against the unlawful use of their content on the internet."

Comments

Haha

[ArchieBunker]

From the same people who brought you the GDPR now comes this.

Re: So who is required to pay...

[Puls4r]

How did you come to be an editor with statements like that? Seriously. With reasoning as flawed as yours, how do they expect you to pick reasonable stories? Let me help you out though. The Supreme Court had nothing to do with Donald Trump becoming president.

Re:Interesting precedent

[LynnwoodRooster]

Thank you for drawing attention to my post by replying to it! Posts with replies tend to draw more views, and thus more people will see my post. AC, you're doing me a great big favor - keep it up!