Go, Germany! They decide the courts won't help their equiv of the RIAA prosecute P2P thefts!

[thewayne]

They decide that the smalltime sharers are not causing significant monetary damage and that the RIAA-equiv cannot use the courts to force ISPs to reveal identifying information to them for persecutionprosecution.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/02/1647221

Comments

[silveradept]

Ah, refreshing to see that just about everywhere else in the world doesn't share our neuroses regarding peer-to-peer sharing. I wonder whether an independent auditor would find that the P2P in the U.S would constitute non-substantive damage relative to how much people actually buy stuff. Or buy stuff after having listened to it on P2P.