Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to violations of Huawei patents

Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by marvion on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:19AM (#38681524)

Weird choice of this site to mention their sources, but not linking them.

- Heise reported this originally: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Fritzboxen-AVM-verliert-Pat...

- Golem basically summarized the Heise article: https://www.golem.de/news/patentklagen-avm-droht-vertriebsve...

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by cubefox on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:53AM (#38681752)

And the article seems to be a stolen version of this German one:

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Internet-Thema-34041/News/AVM...

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by mrks_hy on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:36AM (#38682239)

Yeah @dang maybe possible to replace the submission link with the original article passed through translate, e.g. https://www-pcgameshardware-de.translate.goog/Internet-Thema... ?

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by d-k-bo on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:54AM (#38684154)

The PCGH article references the golem article which references the heise article.

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by hnbad on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:05AM (#38684318)

That would explain the wonky headline: "AVM droht ..." means "AVM is threatened with ..." but could be misread as "AVM threatens ..." ("AVM droht mit ..." or "AVM droht: ..."), especially in a cheap/automated translation.

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by bityard on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:33AM (#38682188)

Appreciate the links. Although one is in German and the other is also in German and seems to be behind a paywall.

As an aside, it is common for news sites to only provide links back to their own earlier articles (even when the connection to the present story is tenuous at best), never to sources or extra information outside of their web property. Unfortunately it is not a weird choice, it's an industry-wide standard practice.

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by mrks_hy on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:37AM (#38682250)

See my sibling comment - you can also click the left button ("Akzeptieren und weiter"), which just is your consent to see advertisement, it's a soft paywall (paying makes ads go away).

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by RobotToaster on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:25AM (#38683687)

You have to consent to invasive tracking cookies or pay (isn't that against the GDPR?)

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by ibotty on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:49PM (#38688021)

> isn't that against the GDPR?

It is.

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by bogwog on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:43AM (#38682322)

Also the first title in the body is nonsense:

> AVM threatens to ban the sale of Fritzbox routers

So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

This looks like some SEO spam site with AI generated crap sprinkled on top.

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by FirmwareBurner on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:39AM (#38683898)

>So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

I assume they have a huge captive domestic market that such threats are effective. Imagine VW threatening to ban the sale of the Golf

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Re:Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to viola... by felurx on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:03PM (#38685130)

In this case, the Heise article is pretty clear that AVM is threatened with a sales ban, not that AVM itself is threatening one.

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