On Edwin Jacobs’ Law & Justice blog, there’s a post called: “Hamburg Court: Online Publisher is Liable for Reader Comments. Also for Comments on Blogs? “

From the post:

The first-instance district court of Hamburg has issued a temporary restraining order preventing an on line publisher Heise Zeitschriften Verlag from publishing reader comments on a forum. Those comments called on others to overload a third party’s server by massively downloading a programme. In the future Heise will have to review all comments and discussion forums.

Edwin believes “This judgment could potentially indeed set a precedent not only for forums, but also for blogs.”

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