The German Supreme Court overruled several lower courts recently, finding that registering generic domain names did not constitute an unethical intent to cause damage.
After promising to offer a browser free of adware and spyware – a feature that made Firefox instantly favored by a large sector of the online community – the German version of the popular open-source browser is being heavily criticized for using adware.
A Berlin court ruled against the owner of an adult website and set a tougher standard for age verification, a spokesman said Monday. The webmaster was fined 1,600 euro after judges found that asking for a national identity number was not sufficient for verifying a surfer’s age.
A German man is reportedly claiming to be the international copyright holder for the @ symbol. Invoices are instructing recipients to pay from $12 to $37 per year to “Account Holder: Robert-Alan Lucht” in order to license Internet and email use of the @ symbol.
