{"id":180477,"date":"2017-04-05T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/meanwhile-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T03:04:00","slug":"meanwhile-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/meanwhile-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Germany has ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20170331\/09443637049\/german-court-rules-parents-must-out-their-family-members-copyright-trolls-pay-fines-themselves.shtml\">family members must rat each other out or pay the fines themselves<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Copyright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/?tag=copyright+troll\">trolls<\/a>  are a plague spreading across the world, one which has received far too  little social medicine for the taste of many. This virulent form of  rent-seeking tends to put out some of the more despicable strategies,  from flatout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20161207\/09550236218\/copyright-troll-ordered-to-pay-17k-to-pirate-it-falsely-accused.shtml\">falsely<\/a> accusing people of piracy, lying to international students about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160915\/10195635528\/copyright-trolls-now-threatening-college-students-with-loss-scholarship-deportation.shtml\">punishment<\/a> for copyright infringement, and threatening those that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160407\/09360934126\/copyright-troll-tries-to-silence-anti-troll-blogger-with-law-enforcement-threats.shtml\">expose<\/a> their actions. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But a case that was winding its way through German courts sees copyright  trolls there now going even further, winning the argument over whether <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/parents-must-identify-pirate-kids-or-pay-their-fines-court-rules-170331\/\">parents should have to serve their own children<\/a> up to the courts for copyright trolls. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Levying responsibility for the failure to out one&#8217;s own family member is  almost comically pernicious. That the court saw fit to route around  local laws protecting families from this sort of thing in the name of  copyright trolls seems doubly so. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just f%$#ing lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Way to enforce the stereotypes of the German people, German courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Germany has ruled that family members must rat each other out or pay the fines themselves: Copyright trolls are a plague spreading across the world, one which has received far too little social medicine for the taste of many. This virulent form of rent-seeking tends to put out some of the more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[520,371,364,428],"class_list":["post-180477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-copyright","tag-europe","tag-evil","tag-ip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}