[Battlemesh] It’s do or die now

[Linus Lüssing]

And now I got so emotional to forget to summarize the proposed
change in law:

The provider's privilege shall apply for anyone sharing public
wifi *if*:

* They provide a splash page with a button saying "I don't break
  the law"
* They use encryption (it's unclear whether they actually mean
  authorization and whether authorized and unauthorized parties
  must exist - which would be pretty bad for Freifunk as that's
  the whole thing about it, that anyone can use, extend and
  improve the network as soon as they get a signal; similar to the
  Free Software spirit, no need to get an extra permission or
  to register)

Cheers, Linus


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 06:55:21PM +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> Störerhaftung is a law here in Germany on Secondary Liability:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability
> 
> 
> Afaik that law was used for things like leaving your car unlocked
> or a chainsaw unattended.
> 
> In 2010 the German high court ruled, that the internet is so
> dangerous though, that secondary liability applies.
> 
> 
> The good thing (so far) is, that here we have a specific
> excemption for ISPs, the so called "Provider's Privilege".
> 
> Last year some lower courts acknowledged that hotel and holiday
> flat owners and even Freifunk are an "Access Provider" and
> therefore fall under the same privilege.
> 
> 
> Now the government got nervous about loosing their fine
> "scare law", the Störerhaftung. It so effectively prevented
> people to share their internet access, even with friends or flat
> mates... Germans are very easy to scare with something like that.
> 
> And now the government tries to push an update through quickly
> because they are unhappy with the lower court rulings.
> (and how they are selling it and the mainstream media is buying it
> is even more unnerving - they leave out the whole story of the low
> court rulings and sell it as an improvement and more open wifi in
> Germany!)
> 
> Cheers, Linus
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:59:42PM +0200, nemesis wrote:
> >  Monic,
> > 
> >  give us some background, what is this all about?
> > 
> >  Federico
> > 
> > 
> >  On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:44:37 +0200, Monic Meisel <monic at monic.de> 
> >  wrote:
> > > Dear activists,
> > >
> > > we launched today a campaign to get finally rid off the f***
> > > Störerhaftung and activate netpolitic-activists:
> > > 
> > > http://freifunkstattangst.de/2015/09/24/freifunker-und-digitale-gesellschaft-starten-kampagne-zur-wlan-stoererhaftung/
> > > [1]
> > >
> > > Jürgen wrote an article to reflect actual politics, stating that
> > > this is not the only problem free networks have to face:
> > > http://blog.freifunk.net/2015/es-geht-ums-ganze [2]
> > >
> > > Unfortunately they are both in German … Maybe someone here could
> > > help to translate them into proper english?
> > > Thx Monic
> > >
> > > —
> > >
> > > Co-Founder of freifunk.net
> > > Boardmember of Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V.
> > >
> > > To support freifunkas, please donate: spenden.freifunk.net [3]
> > >
> > > Fingerprint C121 3F15 via pool.sks-keyservers.net
> > >
> > > Am 22.09.2015 um 18:22 schrieb Ben West :
> > >
> > > Eric Schultz of the Purple Foundation recently posted a long write-up
> > > at prpl.works, hoping to clarify everything around the FCC's recent
> > > NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) and the prospect of open 
> > > firmware
> > > being banned on wireless devices.
> > >
> > > 
> > > http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/
> > > [4]
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Ben West
> > > ben at gowasabi.net [5]
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Links:
> > > ------
> > > [1]
> > > 
> > > http://freifunkstattangst.de/2015/09/24/freifunker-und-digitale-gesellschaft-starten-kampagne-zur-wlan-stoererhaftung/
> > > [2] http://blog.freifunk.net/2015/es-geht-ums-ganze
> > > [3] http://spenden.freifunk.net
> > > [4]
> > > 
> > > http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/
> > > [5] mailto:ben at gowasabi.net
> > 
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