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Its a hassle. Even larger non-profit organizations (Freifunk for example) which provide free open wifi route their traffic via VPN to a country without "Störerhaftung" (Sweden) to eliminate the risk of getting adhortatory letters.

Maybe everyone there should start doing that? Even an individual could provide free wifi but route it through a foreign VPN service.

For that matter, with a law that stupid I'm surprised the major ISPs there aren't making hay by offering a VPN service with your internet account and integrating it into their broadband routers.

Actually, Freifunk Rheinland did register as an ISP and built a sizeable backbone network. They provide internet access to many Freifunk communities without any risk of liability.

Didn't know this. Thanks for this bit of information here.

You have to implement Vorratsdatenspeicherung which is basically an API to query who had this IP at a given point in time in case of an investigation.

The price and the requirements, I guess?