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Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules - TorrentFreak
in September 2013, H33T.com, one of the Internet's most-visited torrent sites at the time, disappeared from the web .
Although the downtime was initially shrouded in mystery, it later became clear that the site had been targeted in a copyright infringement action.
In order to stop the distribution of a copy of Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines, Universal Music had obtained an injunction against Key-Systems, a German-based registrar where the H33t.com domain name was registered.
Key-Systems wasn't happy with the ruling and the precedent it set but had no other option than to comply. However, the company informed us at the time that it would appeal the verdict, hoping to have it lifted.
This was the start of a drawn-out legal battle from which the latest ruling was just released.
The Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken concluded Key-Systems can be held secondarily liable for the infringing actions of a customer if it fails to take action if rightsholders point out "obvious" copyright infringing activity online.
(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Wednesday December 26 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)
I never got out of the habit of typing in full domain names.
When I first heard people just typing in in the address bar I was confused...why would you even do that? I see the convenience I guess, but it is simply guaranteed that what they don't want you to see will be missing or on page three.
(unless you are attempting to reach a site that exhibits an approved viewpoint of course.)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 26 2018, @09:17PM
So where do you type the domain name?
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