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About the case in Germany: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=...

Quote from the post: the IP's of the sued user "rechner3" was from an IP Range from the lawyers (Rasch Legal).

The e-mail of the user "rechner3" was "pm.hh.04@gmail" it is possible that pm stands for the anti Piracy Company "ProMedia" hh == "Hansestadt Hamburg".

and other indications that lead to the lawyer company and anti-piracy company.

The maximum value of discussion was 10k. If a lawsuit had been started, this value would have been cut down. There was never a lawsuit to discuss the case and start a prove collection or discussion.

There is only a contract with rechner3 and the anti-piracy company, where rechner3 committed to not use RetroShare again.

rechner3 was never seen afterwards.

It looks like, this was a "forged" case to be present in the media with a high value sentence.




Thanks for this information, I didn't knew that and I admit, I took the original report at a face value.

However, the general point still stands - RetroShare is routing random traffic through you, if you happen to be near the nodes.


Isn't the data encrypted? How can even another friend see what's within the encrypted data?

This makes it another reason to use Bitmessage instead.




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