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Originally Posted by fjtorres
International treaties are about signatory countries agreeing to common terms and roghts, not about giving foreign courts arbitrary authority over their citizens and institutions.
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Exactly.
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Originally Posted by haertig
Seems to me that if Germany wants to block its inhabitants from accessing something that is legal elsewhere, then it is Germany that needs to do the blocking.
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Which is what some other countries do in law, the UK included, to stop their inhabitants accessing sites that serve what is in copyright material to them. While I can understand German politicians shrinking from accusations of limiting access to the internet, it is the correct solution rather than leaving it to corporates to fight minnows not even domiciled in Germany in court.