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Date: 1998-06-05
compuserve.de: Urteil angefochten-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- compuserve.de: Urteil angefochten Und zwar von der Anklage, die Freispruch für den in erster Instanz verurteilten Compuserve Manager gefordert hatte. Soll so der Schaden für den IT/Standort Deutschland einer Begrenzung zugeführt werden? relayed by Yaman Akdeniz. tnx Prosecutors Appeal Somm's Case 10:33am 3.Jun.98.PDT MUNICH, Germany-State prosecutors who originally pressed for a guilty verdict before making an about-face took the unusual step today of filing an appeal against the conviction of Felix Somm in a key Internet pornography case. Judge Wilhelm Hubbert last week gave the former CompuServe manager a two-year suspended sentence and fined him DM100,000 (US$56,200), concluding that Somm had "abused" the Internet and allowed child pornography and Nazi literature -- both of which are illegal in Germany-to be available to German CompuServe users. Yet after four weeks of hearings, even the prosecutors had swung over to the defense view that Somm was not liable under a multimedia law the German parliament passed last August. They are now calling for the verdict to be reversed. The law says Internet access providers like CompuServe are not liable for illegal content if they do not have the technology to block the material. The defense pointed out that such technology was not available until December 1996. The conviction related to incidents in 1995 and 1996, when Somm was head of CompuServe's German division. The sentence triggered an outcry from industry specialists and ignited general concern that the decision could prove a barrier to Internet use in Germany. It was not immediately clear which court in Bavaria would handle the appeal. Somm said last week he plans to appeal the decision. In addition to a conservative court system, Bavaria has a special police unit that trawls the Internet for pornography involving children or violence, as well as for Nazi literature. Some Internet advocates questioned whether the case would have been brought before any other court. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/other/politics/story/12708.html -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) from Arge Daten http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-06-05 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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