Another way to see it, is that if you want to use "password protection" to discharge you from being a public service, you have to use a scheme where the password is sent with the initial SYN or UDP packet, and then the service will completely ignore requests with a incorrect password.
Since the german law is based on EU law (telecommunication law), the law in all EU countries, including Sweden, are very similar, that’s why its possible to still discuss this across the borders. The "offered for remundation" part is something that is also in Sweden law, copied straight off the EU law requirements. -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Kai 'wusel' Siering via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Skickat: den 23 oktober 2022 01:17 Till: mailop@mailop.org Ämne: Re: [mailop] Tangent: Banks and imprint requirements in Germany Am 22.10.22 um 23:55 schrieb Sebastian Nielsen via mailop: > Germany and Sweden do not. And only paid online services require a imprint, > free OR personal online services do not in germany. Seems like §18 Medienstaatsvertrag disagrees. (»(1) Anbieter von Telemedien, die nicht ausschließlich persönlichen oder familiären Zwecken dienen, haben folgende Informationen leicht erkennbar, unmittelbar erreichbar und ständig verfügbar zu halten […]«) As it seems, if your website addresses the general public, or even is accessible by the general public (no htaccess), better put a basic imprint there. If you're ready for German legalese, there's a podcast around this topic from 2021-06-22 at https://rechtsbelehrung.com/impressum-rechtsbelehrung-94/ — in German, obviously ;-) -kai _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
