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Some additional relevant information:

When the changes that toughened the § 202 StGB were made in 2007, there were a lot of public rallies against it in which many programmers participated. These were ignored by the politicians in power. This (together with other worrying political events) even lead to a temporary upcoming of a new party (Piratenpartei) in Germany.

The fact that these rallies were ignored by the politicians in power lead to the situation that from then on by many programmers the German politicians got considered to be about as trustworthy as child molesters who have relapsed several times.