A Vienna administrative court has ordered Austrian Internet Service Providers to block several web sites allegedly used for illicit sharing of copyrighted material, based on a request from rightsholders' representative VAP.
VAP, the anti-piracy group for film and video in Austria, announced this week that it plans to take legal action against Austrian Internet service providers (ISPs), to force them to block access to so-called piracy websites.
An Austrian man who operated a Tor anonymizing exit node for the benefit of other Internet users has been convicted of offenses relating to child pornography, which he claimed he never knew about, saw or used personally.
Two men have been arrested by police from the Vienna Office of Criminal Investigation for stealing €130,000 through a sophisticated Internet attack, according to a report in the daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
