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Key Facts
- Debcon is controversial among IT lawyers who handle file-sharing warnings.
- Many lawyers ignore the begging letters from Debcon and dispose of them.
- The claims in Debcon letters are often arbitrary and vary greatly.
- Debcon is probably active again and is sending letters again.
- Clients should not take Debcon claims seriously without good reason.
- Most of the claims stem from warnings from the scandalous law firm U+C.
- The author plans to switch to receiving faxes by e-mail in order to save paper.
Debcon is a red rag for numerous IT lawyers who also handle file-sharing cease-and-desist letters. The reason for this is that they continue to send begging letters even after many years of being mandated, so that clients do settle the alleged claims.
I have not forwarded these faxes for a long time, I just shred them. I have also long since given up trying to understand how the random sums, which are different in every letter, are arrived at.
Probably my shredder will get some work now, because Debcon is active again:
But also my clients do not have to be afraid, because, in contrast to possibly seriously acting file sharing warning letters, whose letters should be taken seriously and responded to, most Debcon claims probably originate, for example, from warning letters from the scandalous law firm U+C and from other worthless letters.
I guess I’ll switch back to receiving faxes by email, then I won’t have to cut down so many trees to ignore these letters 😉
Author: Marian Härtel
Marian Härtel ist Rechtsanwalt und Fachanwalt für IT-Recht mit einer über 25-jährigen Erfahrung als Unternehmer und Berater in den Bereichen Games, E-Sport, Blockchain, SaaS und Künstliche Intelligenz. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben dem IT-Recht insbesondere das Urheberrecht, Medienrecht sowie Wettbewerbsrecht. Er betreut schwerpunktmäßig Start-ups, Agenturen und Influencer, die er in strategischen Fragen, komplexen Vertragsangelegenheiten sowie bei Investitionsprojekten begleitet. Dabei zeichnet sich seine Beratung durch einen interdisziplinären Ansatz aus, der juristische Expertise und langjährige unternehmerische Erfahrung miteinander verbindet. Ziel seiner Tätigkeit ist stets, Mandanten praxisorientierte Lösungen anzubieten und rechtlich fundierte Unterstützung bei der Umsetzung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle zu gewährleisten.
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