Heise fought 6 years for the right to link to "illegal" Software while reporting about court decisions regarding that software. After countless lost proceedings in lower courts, they finally won at the end of 2010, where the Federal court (the highest instance below the constitutional court) decided in Heise's favor that links are an essential feature of the freedom of online press and thus protected. This sadly does not include linking in general, only news coverage, but it was an epic win for press freedom anyway, since it was de facto illegal for the last 6 years even for the press, due to all the negative decisions by the lower courts.