German prosecutors ready to stop P2P lawsuit machine

[zatoicchi]

Germany's prosecutors are looking for ways to deal with the flood of mass-lawsuits that have targeted tens of thousands of the country's file sharers in recent years. The German IT news website heise.de is reporting that Germany's top prosecutors are working on a set of guidelines that would bring relief to the vast majority of targeted P2P users.

The guidelines apparently include ignoring all lawsuits that aren't reaching a "commercial level" of infringement. The definition of this commercial level of infringement is still unclear. Most likely, it won't just be about people making money , but also users gaining a substantial monetary advantage by downloading a large amount of files. There are some rumors saying that everyone offering more than a hundred files for download reaches this level, but heise is also reporting about a different interpretation that would only count a collection of files worth more than 2000 Euros as commercial, with each MP3 valued at one Euro.

http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-775.html

[Aurion]

woow,now they are falling back behind battle lines I guess such a "
The guidelines apparently include ignoring all lawsuits that aren't reaching a "commercial level" of infringement" an announcement would compensate Inet users for their wasted time regarding fake accuses

[anon]

"The guidelines apparently include ignoring all lawsuits that aren't reaching a "commercial level" of infringement. The definition of this commercial level of infringement is still unclear. ... but also users gaining a substantial monetary advantage by downloading a large amount of files."

ap2pers screwed there, people download stuff for private use

[Aurion]

I guess Inet users got wildy by time since those restrictions unleashed they eager of sharing & getting stuff (Illegely as they describe) especially after those anti p2p organizations got mad about those users !! Moreover,IMO users didnt reach this level of Inet usage & the increasing share of pirated stuff which lead to more lawsuits held by those organizations !! Anyway,good to hear they finally are going down