Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

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Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 - 9:56 am

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:42:08PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

"multiple repeated infractions" might not be required.

I remember one case in Germany where offering 272 songs in a P2P network 
once resulted in a fine based on criminal law. [1]

Convictions under civil law seem to be easier and result in higher costs 
for the copyright violators, so the music industry tends to use the 
reportings of offences in Germany only for getting the names of the 
people from the IP addresses they have (happened in a five digit number 
of cases), don't care about whether the criminal law cases proceed, and 
focus on the civil law cases.

But if you are doing more than just filesharing, or even make a profit 
out of it, the maximum penalties go up to 5 years in jail...


cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.jurpc.de/rechtspr/20040236.pdf

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ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 5:22 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:20 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Wed Jan 30, 1:04 am)
RE: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Schwartz, (Wed Jan 30, 4:50 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Zan Lynx, (Wed Jan 30, 1:38 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Geert Uytterhoeven, (Wed Jan 30, 3:40 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 10:08 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 8:35 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 9:33 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 6:57 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 8:48 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, David Newall, (Wed Jan 30, 11:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Thu Jan 31, 11:20 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Chris Friesen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:26 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 2:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lee Revell, (Wed Jan 30, 3:36 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Mon Feb 4, 8:42 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Feb 4, 9:56 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 4:28 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Michael Gerdau, (Wed Jan 30, 9:00 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Feb 5, 9:00 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:44 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 29, 8:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 10:02 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:15 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 2:45 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Lennart Sorensen, (Wed Jan 30, 3:43 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 30, 5:09 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Rusty Russell, (Wed Jan 30, 7:24 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 29, 7:04 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Jan 29, 7:06 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Alan Cox, (Tue Jan 29, 6:45 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:56 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Andi Kleen, (Tue Jan 29, 11:24 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Wed Jan 30, 1:07 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Wed Jan 30, 1:26 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Andi Kleen, (Wed Jan 30, 2:03 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Wed Jan 30, 2:12 am)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Pavel Roskin, (Tue Jan 29, 7:21 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Jon Masters, (Tue Jan 29, 8:25 pm)
Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux, Giridhar Pemmasani, (Tue Jan 29, 6:35 pm)