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German Wikipedia Off The Hook
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-09
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In a recent suit brought against Wikipedia associates at Wikipedia.de, the German district court in Charlottenburg found for the defendants. The case involved the parents of the deceased hacker known as Tron suing because Tron's actual name had been listed on a Wikipedia entry regarding him.
The German magazine Spiegel published the end of the current chapter in Tron's strange and untimely ending. An injunction had been requested and granted initially to remove the hacker's given name from the web page. The premise was there's no way to hurt the dead, in this case the dead being Tron. The family also claimed the disclosure of their son's name was hurtful to them as well.
The court ruled in favor of Wikipedia and their affiliate and said the online encyclopedia could repost the entries in their entirety. The attorney for Wikipedia Germany said the ruling as mandate by the court.
The attorney for the family criticized the ruling as a "miscarriage of justice" saying the family wants an apology. He said the uniqueness of the name would mark the family as the family of the hacker.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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