Comments on: German court awards damages for loss-of-Internet, says net is "crucial part of people's economic living standards"

By: jimkirk

jimkirk — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:59:00 +0000

I’m guessing a precedent like this could give ISPs incentive to force those who make copyright claims provide actual proof that the claim is valid.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:39:00 +0000

Not to mention people that use the Internet to get health care information they cannot get in the USA because our health care system is still in the stone ages.

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:38:00 +0000

Of course, if you are running a business, you should run it in a businesslike manner: Order a commercial grade DSL service with contracted levels of response time for an outage and/or have two separate services feeding you: cable and local DSL or satellite or a cell phone “hot spot” data connection.

If you’re running a business on a residential connection, you’re not really running a business, you’re running a hobby.

If your income is dependent on that connection and you have a single point of failure for that connection, then you are going to fail, sooner or later.

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

ISP outages are unavoidable. Deliberate disconnects of individuals caused by ISP error or negligence, however, yeah: reasonable penalties to discourage that, and also any abuse of the N-strikes system now in place in the US.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:57:00 +0000

As it should be.
I know lots of people who supplement their incomes, or even make a living by selling online, and if they pay their bills they should be compensated when AT&T (or name your provider behemoth) drops service for an extended length of time.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:48:00 +0000

I love the underlying theme that taking away the interweb is akin to time-zapping someone to the stone-age. Long live and prosper, good judge.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:28:00 +0000

E’erbody write down the details of this case to hand to your lawyer when it’s your turn at the plank.