HN Explorer

18 comments

[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 55.1 ms ] thread
kkl
The CCC is an fascinating organization that hosts really interesting talks (among other things). Where else can you see talks titled "Mexican Botnet Dirty Wars", "Encrypted Email for Planet Earth", and "Basics of hydroponics" in one place?

I can spend all day just poking around their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/CCCen

tiplus
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?

q3k
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)...
justthistime_
Given the amount of weed consumed, I think the copyright infringements would be the smallest of their issues. :-)
r0naa
My thoughts exactly d:-)
fs111
The NOC review talks always mention the amount of abuse mail they receive. It is typically very little.
an_ko
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/

justthistime_
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.
Tomte
Say again?

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

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

The police raiding the NSA?

greyfox
is the camp the same thing as the congress?
fs111
no, this is a real outdoor summer camp with tents and stuff. It only happens every 4 years. The congress is every year.