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Date: 1998-06-01
compuserve.de: Da staunt die EU-Kommission-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.5.29.1 compuserve.de: Da staunt die EU-Kommission und die EU/spokespersons wundern sich. European Union Finds Porn Conviction Surprising - Report 06/01/98 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 1998 JUN 1 (NB) -- By Bob Woods, Newsbytes. European Commission (EC) officials said that they found the conviction of a former Compuserve official on pornography and indecency charges "surprising." Reuters quoted a commission spokesperson as saying that the EC "learned of this decision with a certain astonishment," and that the ruling seemed to contradict German law. The carrying of information across international borders needs to be addressed, the spokesperson said, and should be coordinated among countries. Former Compuserve head Felix Somm was convicted last week for spreading pornography and other indecent images over the Internet (Newsbytes, May 29, 1998). The court found Somm guilty of complicity on 13 counts of spreading banned pornography on the Internet. The judges agreed with the Bavarian prosecutor's original position that Somm was guilty because Somm, as Compuserve's senior executive in Germany, provided Internet services that made the materials accessible to Bavarian subscribers of Compuserve. According to Somm's attorney, Hans-Werner Moritz, the court failed to give weight to statements of experts, the revised position of the prosecution and German law regarding multimedia. "Certainly the fight will go on," he said. The Somm conviction was the first under the new German federal multimedia law that came into effect last August. The new Information and Communications Law declared that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not generally held liable for material on the global Internet, but such businesses are required to take reasonable measures to block access to banned material, however. The conviction came after prosecutors altered their initial position and declared that Somm should not be liable for banned materials on the Internet. The prosecutors had moved for acquittal of the defendant during the trial. For a time Compuserve blocked access to the infamous alt Usenet newsgroup hierarchy across the world in an attempt to appease the German authorities. The online service's move was greeted by global criticism. Somm and his attorney, are planning to appeal. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: http://www.newsbytes.com -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- TIP Download free PGP 5.5.3i (Win95/NT & Mac) from Arge Daten http://keyserver.ad.or.at/pgp/download/ -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- -.-.- --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1998-06-01 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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