| Corleone |
10-19-2008 07:31 PM |
here is why : from wikipedia.org
"Germany
German law does not allow hardcore pornography without an effective age verification system, and the German Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien has listed YouPorn on its index. As a result, since April 2007, the German site of the Google search engine (google.de) has eliminated YouPorn.com from its search results[13] and replaced it with a link to Chilling Effects, claiming that a "German regulatory body reported illegal material".[14] Because the site itself was still accessible from Germany and the other Google versions in the German language (google.at - Austria; google.ch - Switzerland) still listed YouPorn.com, Google Germany's action was sarcastically commented upon in a large number of blogs.[15]
Following a request by a competing pornography service, German provider Arcor started to block YouPorn and a few other porn sites at the routing level in September 2007[16], affecting over 2 million users. The company that requested the block, Kirchberg Logistik, had itself earlier been sued for distribution of pornography to minors. The German Piratenpartei (Pirate Party) promptly opened a proxy server so that Arcor customers could continue to access YouPorn.
Arcor lifted the block on September 17 because the IP address-based filter which had been set up for YouPorn also affected other sites.[17] Kirchberg then sued, alleging that Arcor aided unfair competition by YouPorn, and on 19 October 2007 obtained a temporary injunction ordering Arcor to resume the block of YouPorn.[18][19] On 23 October 2007, Arcor started to block access to YouPorn again, this time with a DNS-based approach that is easily circumvented,[20] and successfully filed an appeal against the injunction.[21]
Kirchberg has sent notices to 19 German ISPs demanding that YouPorn be blocked, but none have complied.[22] Efforts by Kirchberg to obtain injunctions to block YouPorn against internet providers in Kiel and Düsseldorf were unsuccessful.[23][24]§"
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