Blocking of copyright infringing sites
The Munich Regional Court has ruled that Telekom, which as an Internet service provider enables access to websites that demonstrably infringe copyright, such as goldesel.to, must block access to the website by means of DNS blocking.
According to the German Music Industry Association (BVMI), this is the first time that this has been decided in proceedings on the merits. The ruling is in line with the current case law of the Munich Higher Regional Court, according to which Vodafone must block access to the illegal website kinox.to.
According to the BVMI, structurally infringing websites generally have no legal notice and no address that can be delivered. The operators are interested in offering infringing content in order to generate high internet traffic and advertising revenue by placing banner ads and so on.
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