Internet Service Providers Will Not Have to Block Online Gambling Sites in Germany

The Administrative Court of Düsseldorf on Wednesday ruled that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) was not obligated to block an online gambling site even if the website in question was an unlicensed, unregulated foreign entity.

The district government in Düsseldor had requested that fISP Deutsche Telekom block access to the online gambling websites in question because they were illegal under German law.

From the Register:

The EU's E-Commerce Directive protects service providers from liability for material that they neither create nor monitor but simply store or pass on to users of their service. The Directive says that service providers are generally not responsible for the activity of customers and that member states must not put service providers under any obligation to police illegal activity on their services.

- Ace King, Gambling911.com