Blogging Ottinger (tim)Buzz crusher in Germany
I just saw an article on copyright trouble in Germany. This seems crazy, raiding all these homes. If the evidence were all that good, why was the raid necessary? Doesn’t this seem like a crazy way to treat something that is at most an offense against a commercial entity’s business model. It’s not like they were cooking up crack or trafficking in human slavery or building bombs. This is the most ridiculous use of force.
I think that trading copyrighted goods should be a civil matter, handed in a civil way with lawsuits and C&D orders and the like. I don’t think that we should take the police away from more important matters in order to make them deputies of the recording industry. This is uneven response.
Let the police do their real work.
