I remember when Microsoft first attempted to prevent the standardisation of Open Document Format (used by LibreOffice and others) and then bullied its way into getting approval for own OOXML standard. Already back then, supporters of FOSS warned that Microsoft would use the overly complicated OOXML to maintain its stranglehold on users of Office-like software.:

Whenever applicable and possible, standards should build upon previous standardisation efforts and not depend on proprietary, vendor-specific technologies. Albeit, MS-OOXML neglects various standards and uses its own vendor-specific formats instead. This puts a substantial burden on all vendors to fully implement MS-OOXML. It seems questionable how any third party could ever implement them equally well, especially when a standard comes with 6000 pages of specifications without serving its minimalistic purpose.

As far as I understand it, the studios are trying a different angle: They are not suing Reddit this time, but an ISP and want Reddit to provide the data of costumers of that ISP.

I don’t want to rain on the parade, but the law is not as good as it may seem. The devil is in the details and therein are hidden many concessions to transphobes, among those a blank check to discriminate against trans people on the ground of domestic authority, countless exceptions that allow to reveal dead names to various institutions (including cops) and other such provisions.

So despite improvements over the previous state of affairs, most LGBT+ orgs in Germany aren’t celebrating this law.

For those interested in the subject: Here is a Google Translate version of a statement by Germany’s biggest LGBT+ news portal