I've read another article somewhere else that Sisvel was trying to prevent other patent non-licensees from showing and files a complaint
with the Deutsche authorities. Meizu was 1 of the companies implicated with their Mini1.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigi.tech.qq.com%2Fa%2F20080306%2F000120.htm&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"they carted off mobile phones, flat screen monitors and digital picture frames* ?
am I missing something here?
fek I thought the UK was going nuts..

Why are the Cops like they are on this. Well someone has been paid off by the music dogs and they are trying to get back in the news . To many music stars are dropping the music company's because of what they are doing. And they are getting a bad rap on the news. So they are trying what desperate people do when they are losing. Any thing they can to try to get control of it all again. 
But I bet if you did some looking around you would trace back to a person in the Government and from there back to the Music company's .

Health Care? Where did that come from?

i mean, why are cops such tight asses over there when it comes to music and what not? they should hold cebit or something to that effect here in canada, where not only can you donwload mp3's and it's legal, but also get free health care no matter who you are!

hehe, when I attended Cebit, the last day was a riot. We had to keep our eyes on our equipment as local German people would come over and give your stand a good looking over.

The legal ones would make you an offer for anything and everything on the basis of its costly to ship your show material back. 

The illegal ones would try to nick your stuff! I was told IBM ( and other large companies) would lost thousands of pounds of equipment at the end of every show.