Hey Lily, I can`t give you technical/legal advice in certain situations. If you haven`t shared any files under a German IP address, you should be fine. Using a VPN in Germany is completely legal. Some may challenge the GVU`s definition of “illegal.” The Society for Consumer Research (GfK), which conducted the survey on behalf of the GVU, does not use the word in its own final assessment. “We never judge him,” a spokesman for the website of the news magazine Der Spiegel said. Visit your local library (although it is still functional in Germany – unlike some of our home countries) and you`ll be surprised at how willing the staff is to help you find the books you`re looking for and how little it costs you to avoid the moral/ethical/legal dilemma. Hosting and downloading works without permission is a copyright infringement, so both parties are liable. Downloaders may mistakenly rely on the “I didn`t know!” defense, which carries no legal weight in the United States. Still, if you download my book, it will probably cost me a lot more to sue you for infringement than the damages I could get for your violation. Usually, copyright holders track down pirate sites and rarely particularly blatant serial downloaders. When it comes to publishing or downloading PDFs, legality is always an important issue. PDF Drive itself is a service that allows you to download files from the internet through its servers, which are primarily a proxy. Hey! This article is very well written and only shows the crucial information! It is also very well secured! Thank you.
I have a question: Is IDM (Internet Download Manager) considered legal software? How can I check this? As far as I know, it`s not P2P software, and I`ve even received confirmation about it from their client`s customer service. But how can I be sure? www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ thanks! Reports suggest that illegal downloads can cause relatively limited damage in the publishing industry. GfK found that e-books accounted for 0.5% of the total book market – but university textbooks are not included. So no. It is not legal. Very little on the Internet is “free”, it is most often stolen. Download only from reputable bookstores, Amazon at least. Absolutely right when I tell the Germans that I torrent every time. to download Linux distributions and so on. The first reaction is “if you need to ask, you`re probably doing something illegal” some books are not easy to find on the market or expensive. And the internet is full of websites with thousands of books. Some of them say it is free and legal, but don`t want to get into trouble later.
Anyone who has an idea, please help us. Illegal file sharing violates German law. There are law firms that specialize in sending written compensation claims to offenders. The IP address is used to identify the network used for online exchange. Anyone who gets caught should expect fines of several hundred to a thousand euros. German law firms that send warnings typically engage specialized third-party services that scan P2P nodes and clients and log IP addresses currently illegally downloaded in Germany. You are then legally entitled to ask your ISP to disclose all information associated with that IP address. This way they received your private data. A: This is general legal information only, not legal advice. That is a very good question. It seems like their website is a bit like Google (where you can search for images and images. They allow you to browse PDFs, but that doesn`t necessarily mean you have the right to reproduce, share, distribute, or copy the final content (you might be allowed to read it, but I`d be very careful before downloading or sharing the content.
WARNING, as copyright plaintiffs can be very aggressive, I deal with several of the biggest names in anti-piracy app. According to Directive PDFDrive.com: I. PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION OF PDF DRIVE SERVICES PDF Drive allows you to download files from the public web through its servers – the servers act as a proxy for you. This means that no data is controlled by us and you must have the right to download the content you access through our servers; This website should not be used for any other purpose. If you wish to verify the legitimacy of the data you wish to retrieve using PDF Drive, please contact the appropriate content distributors and/or data hosts. This website was created so that you can download data from the Internet, such as articles, books, and files hosted in cloud storage services, such as Database Exports or Large Media Resources. This article is adapted from Deutsche Welle`s article “Warning for refugees against illegal downloads”. You should be aware that illegal downloads (torrents or otherwise) are punishable under German law. Such downloads can result in hefty fines up to and including imprisonment.
Watching a movie on the Internet or downloading a song is often prohibited. Many online file-sharing services are illegal. German laws are strict and refugees should also be wary of abuse. Many Germans also fall into the trap: a movie is downloaded from a random site and watched in the evening after work. Or you can quickly download the latest song from your favorite band to your phone. However, in many cases, this is illegal and people who use such websites can be prosecuted for copyright infringement. These laws also apply to students and visitors. Well, this is a bit tricky, because it is true that some fraudulent letters (for example from the non-existent law firm “Kroner & Kollegen”) were sent and they are not allowed to represent the copyright holder.