Over to the Popkomm conference in Berlin, and words of support from the German government for greater cooperation between content owners and internet service providers regarding the policing of copyright infringement online.
While Germany hasn't, as far as I know, gone as far as the UK and France in proposing legislation to force the ISPs to be more cooperative, German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said his government were keen to ensure that measures introduced at a European level to protect the freedoms and privacy of internet users didn't hinder national efforts to fight piracy. He was possibly responding to reports that said European rules could scupper France's proposals to introduce a three strikes system whereby people who continue to access illegal sources of content despite two warnings get cut off.
Neumann told Popkomm: "I have taken efforts to have this issue placed on the agenda of the EU Council of Ministers".
He was also critical of his own country's courts, who have suggested infringement lawsuits only be considered where there is substantial amounts of illegal files accessed or shared, because they say there are currently too many suits going through the courts. That's probably because the German music industry has adopted an approach similar to the Recording Industry Association Of America of launching numerous and regular lawsuits against suspected filesharers.