The German music industry which, as previously reported, has recently got extra hardline in its fight against illegal file sharing, scored a partial victory in its legal battle with the operator of an eDonkey P2P server last week, when a court in Hamburg ordered said operator to "take his computer off-line for as long as the range of music files offered for download via the server contains illegal files". Some German media report that that ruling is actually a lot less severe than the German Chapter of the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry had hoped, and almost amounted to a defeat. But IFPI Germany have been publicly upbeat about the ruling, saying the Hamburg decision, and similar rulings in district courts in Frankfurt-on-the-Main and Düsseldorf, shows that the record industry has the law on their side in their fight against individuals and companies who operate servers used in P2P file sharing, with IFPI Germany Director Peter Zombik telling reporters: "We shall in future take legal action against any operator of a P2P network server who makes tracks available illegally".
Jul 18, 2007
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IFPI win partial victory in anti-P2P case
A Hamburg court has ordered an eDonkey server operator to go offline while illegal files remain available, a partial win for IFPI Germany.