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It always blows my mind that the CCC manages to host these huge events without being raided by police on a daily basis for massive copyright infringement on their public 10GE+ net. https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/FTP They even provided rack space for the file servers last time I visited.

How is this handled at large US based hacker conventions?

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Maybe it works for the CCC because in Germany raiding an event held by an organisation so famous for free speech activism would easily turn into a PR disaster?

This is not a common theme in the rest of the EU. For example, Assembly Computer Festival in Helsinki, while more of a demo/game event, “deals harshly” with it. http://www.assembly.org/manual/rules-etiquette/

Absolutely. I think persons in charge will think at least twice before raiding an event organized by the people writing opinions for the Federal Court of Justice.

Say again?

They are writing expert's statements, but certainly not opinions of the court.

Given the amount of weed consumed, I think the copyright infringements would be the smallest of their issues. :-)

My thoughts exactly d:-)

The NOC review talks always mention the amount of abuse mail they receive. It is typically very little.

I don't think any other organization apart from CCC is able to provide conference attendees with such a large-scale infrastructure (30C3 had a >100GbE uplink, and every year there is a public /16 netblock for LAN clients)...

> How is this handled at large US based hacker conventions?

The police raiding the NSA?

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