Deutsch News - Police Refuse To Investigate Filesharing Complaints

[GhostShip]

This is a strange  developement.

http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-813.html

Law enforcement officials from several German states have told local press in recent days that they won't pursue the vast majority of file sharing lawsuits anymore. A spokesperson of the state prosecutor of Nort-Rhine Westphalia told the online magazine jetzt.de earlier this week that P2P users won't have to fear any lawsuits if they don't share files on a "substantial, commercial" level.

The criteria to determine whether P2P users reach this level are both the number of files shared and the specific value of the shared files. From the interview:
"The economic value of a music file is about one Euro, whereas a movie is valued at about 15 Euro. Based on that we define a commercial level as damages greater than 3000 Euro."

Sharing a movie that has not been released theatrically in Germany could get you in trouble even if you don't share too many other files, according to the prosecutor's spokesperson.

It looks as though all the false allegations of illegal filesharing being made by the Cartel has taken its toll on the polices patience, taxpayers will be releived they no longer have to fund these "nusiance" complaints.


 

[Mick832]

Not strange at all.   Police do not have time or the resources to go after normal people who use P2P.   They are busy with drug dealers, pedophiles, rapists etc.   The simple fact is Police resources must be directed towards what hurts the community the most, and simple Internet piracy is not hurting anybody much.

[GhostShip]

Very true Mick and judging by the way they gather the information that gets handed to the police its often incorrect or of dubious technical quality.

[White Stripes]

did nobody catch the coincidence in this post?

"The economic value of a music file is about one Euro, whereas a movie is valued at about 15 Euro. Based on that we define a commercial level as damages greater than 3000 Euro."

and it just so happenes that a secondary connection to the wpn wont allow more than 3000 files to be viewed in 'browse' .....