[founderling]

    Users of online forums in Austria will have to provide
    operators with their true identities or risk fines that
    could run into the millions.

How trustworthy is a publication where the very first sentence of an article is nonsense?

Users do not risk being fined millions. The webmasters will.

[masswerk]

The original German version has it somewhat right by just associating potential consequences after an indent. This is just a case of lost in translation.