Hello! <br><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have just shared on our Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ppinternational">https://www.facebook.com/ppinternational</a> amusing ruling of German court (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:22px">Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe) against ISP. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:22px">In short,</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:30px"> German court ruled on Thursday that people have the<b> right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an "essential" part of life</b>.</span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:30px">You can read the news on Reuters website </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:30px"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/us-germany-internet-idUSBRE90N15H20130124">http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/24/us-germany-internet-idUSBRE90N15H20130124</a> (and share <3)</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:30px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here in my country sometimes happens that ISP support agents send a note to the user saying one has made copyright infringements. </span></div><div>
<span style="line-height:30px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="line-height:30px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Original (Serbian)</b></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<i><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kao administrator EUneta, zelim da Vas obavestim da smo dobili prijavu od strane nosioca autorskih prava da se sa Vaseg naloga preduzimaju aktivnosti koje nisu u skladu sa uobicajenim standardima i pravilima ponasanja na Internetu.<br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Prema nasim saznanjima u konkretnom slucaju doslo je do:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">[Krsenje autorskih prava - 29.12.2012.]</span></i></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Do you have similar experiences? </div>
<div>Here only one ISP is sending this kind of notice, and I believe many of our Pirates wouldn't even need a lawyer to explain that downloading for private use is not violating any copyright law, either makes financial damage to distributors. Some industry debates are ongoing for cca 1 year and people from film industry and their agencies so far seem more interested in how can they make their masterpieces available online for shopping then they are interested in real troll-war or any kind of judicial mess with Pirate movement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You are probably familiar with case of DMCA agency with "Ombudsman" in their name who tried to sue bloggers and even Karl Bilt :) for copyright infringement in Sweden </div><div><a href="http://piratetimes.net/bloggers-sued-for-copyright-infringement-pp-membership-evidence-of-guilt/">http://piratetimes.net/bloggers-sued-for-copyright-infringement-pp-membership-evidence-of-guilt/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Are Pirates all over the world getting this kind of notices? What do you do with them? Are people approaching to you for advice, what do you say? If ISPs are shaping online behavior do they have a right to ask for money also or only court can decide on reimbursement for copyright violation? </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Have a nice day </div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Jelena Jovanović</font></div><div><font color="#666666">PPI board member 2012/2013<br></font><br>
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