DigiProtect
| FDUDM2 GmbH (formerly: DigiProtect Society for Protection of Digital Media mbH) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2006 |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| management | Alexandros Besparis (Management) |
| Number of employees | n / a |
| sales | 1.602 million € (2008) |
| Branch | entertainment |
The DigiProtect Gesellschaft zum Schutz digitaler Medien mbH was founded on December 21, 2006 by Moses Pelham and Andreas Walter. The managing director of DigiProtect was Alexandros Besparis.
The company was renamed FDUDM2 GmbH on February 12, 2013 , and then preliminary insolvency proceedings were opened on February 15, 2013.
Business model
In a flyer from 2007, the company advertised its own corporate purpose by “getting the provider of illegal content to submit a declaration of cease and desist and to pay lump-sum damages”. The company originally came from the music industry, in the meantime DigiProtect has also been increasingly used to enforce the copyrights of film and television productions. DigiProtect wanted to limit the illegal offering of copyrighted works on the Internet through education, warning and deterrence. First and foremost, the large-scale warnings were noticed.
criticism
Some media and blogs criticized the mass warnings from DigiProtect and the law firm Kornmeier & Partner commissioned by it. The point of criticism was the invoicing of legal fees. DigiProtect aroused the suspicion of not wanting to defend their intellectual property, but of making money with mass warnings. The criticism was fueled in part by internal communications by WikiLeaks that appeared to confirm this suspicion.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company register : Annual report as of December 31, 2006 of DigiProtect Gesellschaft zum Schutz digitaler Medien mbH, commercial register number 79436 company register.de
- ^ Mass warning letter DigiProtect insolvent , Internet Law, February 26, 2013
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: German Patent and Trademark Office examines DigiProtect. In: heise online . Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, May 31, 2008, accessed December 8, 2009 .
- ↑ Kurt Sagatz: The film makes the music. In: tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel, May 15, 2010, accessed on July 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Markus Kompa: Mass warnings in the twilight. In: Telepolis . Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, November 30, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 .
- ↑ Financial Times Deutschland : Hunt for the Hunters on the Internet ( Memento from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Business model warning ( memento of the original from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
