tens of thousands of users of the portal sex Redtube have already received a warning. Although this is controversial among lawyers, follows it becomes one more warning wave.
A screenshot of the home page of the portal Redtube Porn | © ZEIT Online
It is probably the most embarrassing attorney letter that can get an Internet user: About the own network connection copyrighted sex films were retrieved from the Web Redtube.com, it said in a warning letter, which have received tens of thousands of German in the past few days. 250 euros should be paid to the rights holders and certify in writing not to commit the offense again.
Now get possibly also users of other porn streaming services on the Internet soon Post by counsel – even though the warnings are highly controversial among experts.
“Redtube was more of a test balloon., we have already identified in other portals, so I expect to write the users of the other portals in the coming months,” said attorney Thomas Urmann by the party responsible for the warnings Law Firm U + C ., the lawyer put on streaming as a new field, since the warning of filesharing users no longer worthwhile. “File-sharing cases, you can not cover the costs to operate,” Urmann said. The users have become more cautious.
“It is in some way a business with shame,” says lawyer Tobias Roettger to the investigation, which according to experts is the biggest warning wave in Germany. A warning for porn Guckens wanted to explain the fewest their partner. Therefore, many patients are tempted to just pay.
But the outcome of the case is less obvious than the end of a porn film. For several questions are legally contentious. For one, it is in question is pornography to a streaming portal for watching films. The principle is similar to YouTube: Unlike file sharing movie files when streaming will not be downloaded and further exchanged, but only temporarily stored briefly, so that the image is not jerky. Whether with such a copy of any copyright is violated, it is not clear even among lawyers.
If streaming is ever illegal?
currently apply in this regard unclear regulations: Who’s Watching Movies Online Stream, it may be prosecuted under certain circumstances. But this is true only if the user is seen that an offer is not legal. This applies at a site like kino.to: Here, films were shown, while the strips were still running in the cinema. This clearly shows that the films were spread there in breach of copyright.
Kino.to is now closed. In the porn site Redtubesei but not clearly identifiable, that the sex movies violate copyright, argue lawyers. Because under the videos, there are also amateur movies or short clips of porn strips that are used as advertising for DVDs or fee online services free.
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