Quelle:
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15289
German court has banned unsolicited advertising by SMS.
The Berlin regional court ruled that text message ads violate a mobile subscriber’s rights and must be considered no different from spam.
The plaintiff had freely given his mobile number to a website in order to participate in ‘SMS voting’, but not long afterward, began to receive regular messages via SMS encouraging him to buy fish and chips from an unknown sender.
So he sued the fish and chips company as well as the website owner who had passed on his phone number.
Although in their defence the companies attempted to argue that the text messages were no different from mail advertising, the court did not agree and found that they were closer in consequence and design to unsolicited e-mail and telemarketing and thus should be restricted in a similar fashion.
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