Dear readers and customers,
2025 freshly started and with it comes hope and optimism. Why not get active now and change to the better what we have in our own hands?
Let us help you with it. In the end, that’s why we are here. For some nice 15 years now.
When we started this project we didn’t know what the world would be in the future. There were some technological developments going on already which made it clear though that it will be all around the web. Gladly, to this day nothing here has changed.
What has changed is the mindset. However we can’t and won’t blame people here as all became way to complex to handle it all in a very limited amount of time.
So what we still try is to help people making the most of their limited resources. Be it time, money, hardware or software. We excel here because we know about the problem and needed to find workarounds for ourselves. Many realised and successful projects later, we wanted to give back what we experienced and thus the idea of AETHYX MEDIAE was born.
Our philosophy is you can achieve what we did too. And with our help you will need much less resources for this goal. What we burned you don’t need to burn yourself anymore, so to speak.
For us, people come first, technology second.
It’s no use to have the best tools lying around if nobody can use them. So we will not only help you set up your project, we’ll also accompany you in your journey to excel in it. Be it your own weblog where you share your knowledge and experience with the world. Your own Ebook with which you realised your dream of becoming an author. Your cool app which helps tackle an immediate problem in your every day life. Or in sharing your data with your loved ones or colleagues via secured and data proteced cloud services on EU soil.
It’s in your own hands. Never forget that and never loose your optimism.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Best regards,
your aethyx staff
New Media in Germany is like colors for the blind: No one has a clue.
Unfortunately this has serious negative consequences.
As of October the 7th, we have been sued.
It is always the same “agency” which is disturbing the blogger subculture here for no reason for years now. Unofficial estimates say they sent out 500-600 take down letters. Since January. Which makes it one of the most foul & most consequent campaigns against independent online writers _ever_ here in this strange European country.
To be clear: This is no serious business. Rumors have it that this agency scans weblog archives over and over and over again in hunting down the one picture/graphic/photo which is not referenced correctly and/or has gone viral after some bloggers mentioned it in an article. The next step seems to be that they obtain the rights for it, long after the content has gone viral, and sue the authors, claiming not only the freshly obtained rights but also suing even the smallest blogs for thousands of Euros.
Some of these authors are scared and close the blogs directly. Others simply have no money to defend themselves. In other cases an author simply is not able to sent back the declaration to cease and desist on time and runs into much bigger problems. Also, when sending back the default letter the agency sends you as an attachment you need to sign, you not only give up the rights to them for the next 30(!) years, but also are in danger being fined for another round of thousands of Euros. It’s an evil circle. A circle artificially created because German law to this date simply does not know or has any interest in creating safe harbors for shared content on the Internet.
Because, you know, as Chancellor Merkel already said: “The Internet is virgin territory for us all”. This was shortly after the Guardian revealed the extensive NSA snoopings going on for years. Yeah. Welcome to the “New World”! What a brave human you need to be in this world…
All the worst,
the aethyx staff