Germany’s Evolving Anti-Piracy Landscape: The 81.5% Threshold, Judicial Shifts, and the Future of Site-Blocking
Executive Overview Germany’s anti-piracy ecosystem has long operated at the intersection of industry self-regulation and strict telecommunications laws. At the heart of this framework is the Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet (CUII), a coalition of major German internet service providers (ISPs) and rightsholders established in 2021 to streamline the blocking of egregious copyright-infringing…