Imagine kids singing "Happy Birthday!" to their dad but he cannot take them into his arms and hug them. He is behind bars. All he did was to download a couple of songs from a file-sharing platform. This warning against pirate copying of music from the media industry is just as clear and exaggerated – very exaggerated. It can be such a relief to extensively describe one's jerk of a boss by "punching this into the keyboard†and maybe even enter the description with his full name in a public chat forum. This, however, can be punished. Many people still believe the internet to be a law free zone. Such belief is by all means outdated! Let us take a closer look at a few of the legalities.
Few people really have yet understood that surfing in the internet is not anonymous or secret venturing. "WWW†is not only an acronym for "world wide web†but also implicates "witnessed world wideâ€. Computers communicate with their IP-address – comparable to a phone number. Technicians consider this as a virtual fingerprint simultaneously delivering the surfer's IP-address.
If you get caught for the first time, you will only be subject to a punishment in money. If, however, the state attorney can prove many cases, you might end up in jail. Punishment will mean you will have a penal record – unlike with speeding tickets. Consider this attitude for punishing as a rule of thumb only for file sharing. There is no public interest in punishing somebody who exchanges only 100 files. This means that only upon application of the music industry will there be a penal case opened. Nevertheless, the greatest punishment will be the costs for civil law admonishment and the attorneys' fees. This usually starts with a four digit sum.
(County Court) Frankfurt sentenced an internet user who called up to block Lufthansa's web presentation as a so-called "online demo†to pay €900 as punishment. That punishment was minuscule compared to the damages of Lufthansa of €42,370.
Nowadays, you do not need to go to distant websites to find porn or illegal material. Schoolyards are a popular trading place. Many teachers have problems to deal with videos containing porn or violence – especially since they are not only on CDs but recently also on cell phones.
StGB by imprisonment up to a year or punishment in money.
StGB.
StGB says that whoever falsifies a true document or creates a false document will receive punishment in money or with imprisonment up to five years. This will automatically lead to an entry in your penal records.
, that will be not considered as a joke – in particular if you call Mr. Münteferig names.
A bad day in the office? A sharp remark in a chat forum? A rebuke about your boss or business partner distributed within the company's intranet? Keep in mind that issuing insults can be subject to punishment.
In the case you insult somebody in a hot discussion and immediately or shortly afterwards excuse yourself, you will be out of trouble. If insults remain public in internet forums, this can quickly become a case for the district attorney. However, district attorneys will only become active in exclusively private feuds upon application of the hurt party. This means you, as the insulted person, will have to pay the case.
An insult will be easily assumed. A court sentenced the person who ordered an ad in a newspaper showing a lady's cell phone number supposedly offering the services of a prostitute to €400. This number was real but only to the guy's ex lover. He wanted to take revenge. Almost as easily traceable would have been the IP-address of this man.Published on the old CMS: 2007/2/16Read on the old CMS till November 2008: 87 reads
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