12/5/2005
Instant comments to be outlawed in Germany
There has been an awful decision by the district court of Hamburg, Germany, that currently heats up the discussion in the German blogger scene. There have been some comments on the discussion forum of Heise, the premier German IT News site, which seem to violate a third partie’s rights.
Now the court decided Heise will have to check all bulletin board posts and all comments on their news before putting them on the net. At this sites popularity, that means they have to check more than 200.000 posts per month, which basically means they have to shut down their boards and disable comments on their news. If this decision holds up, this could be the end of the open comment system, as it is currently practised in weblogs around the world. While this may also stop the spam, in my eyes this will bring the German web back into stone age.
I’d like to know how my non German readers feel about this subject. Is this court’s decision sane at all?
December 6th, 2005 at 9:37 am
Das deutsche IT-Recht ist doch immer in der Steinzeit
Außerdem bezweifele ich, ob die Richter überhaupt verstanden haben, was in so einer Klage ging, geschweige denn richtig entscheiden 