[tor-talk] VOIP and tor

Andreas Krey a.krey at gmx.de
Wed Oct 23 15:20:19 UTC 2013


On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:42:04 +0000, Andrea Shepard wrote:
...
> > Oh, there are legislations where it is illegal to stream
> > to more than N clients at the same time without a permit.
> > 
> > FOr Germany, N = 10000 AFAIR.
...
> Wow, that is absolutely horrifying.

Ok, unlike actually operating a radio transmitter this only gets you
fined, not into prison. Still it's a pretty stupid regulation and
indeed comes from regarding streaming as 'broadcast' and thus being
under the regulations for broadcasting.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800


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