RedTube warning: 10,000 streaming users warned

The law firm “Urmann + Collegen” has sent out more than 10,000 warnings to users of the porn-streaming platform “RedTube”. The fact is that, according to the Cologne IT lawyer Christian Solmecke, it is not at all clear how the law firm came to the addresses of the affected users – and whether the warning itself is at all permissible.

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"I have not seen such a concentrated warning campaign, but it is also new that streaming users are being warned for the first time," explains the lawyer Christian Solmecke on his side. As you are looking at streams in a legal grave, there is a question of how much you need to address the letters that claim 250 euros and a declaration of injustice.

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Solmecke is not the only lawyer to represent this theory. Karsten Gulden, a lawyer from Mainz, who was the first to report on the current case in his blog, said: "In the case of such streaming warnings, many unresolved, legal and actual questions are still open, so that the demands of the law firm U + C Rechtsanwälte Not blindly should follow. "


It is unclear above all how the firm - which is commissioned by the Swiss company "The Archive AG" - has come at all to the addresses of the users. Speaking to the world, Solmecke comments: "I doubt that the Cologne judges should have given this request for information at all.


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Finally, RedTube users would not upload the data themselves to the Web - the IP connection exists only between the user's private IP address and the portal itself, so it is possible that RedTube might have published the addresses of the users under legal pressure . The world, on the other hand, suspects someone might have listened to the RedTube servers. This would almost certainly be illegal.


It is not at all clear how legally the use of a stream - whether on erotic sites such as RedTube or live streams of a sporting event - is actually. The legal situation with streams like wiziwig.tv is not clear. Solmecke explained on request that it makes a difference, whether one is only a stream or even permanently downloads. The latter is strictly forbidden.


Even in the first case, it is a download, but here only a temporary copy in the (work) memory. This copy "is to be privileged according to the will of the legislator."


Either way, the RedTube case will be the direction for the future of the streaming portals. If the warning wave is declared to be right, many other law firms would jump on the train and also demand flat rates for significantly more offers. This would also apply to sporter events and series - and thus massively change the behavior of Internet users.