37It is true that the prohibition on making newspapers or magazines available to the public, provided for in Paragraph 87g(4) of the UrhG, relates not only to online service providers but also to offline service providers. However, it is apparent from recitals 7 and 8 of Directive 98/48, by which Directive 98/34 was amended, that the purpose of Directive 94/48 was to adapt existing national legislation to take account of new information society services and avoid restrictions on the freedom to provide services and freedom of establishment leading to ‘refragmentation of the internal market’. It would, however, run counter to that objective to exclude a rule, the aim and object of which is in all probability to regulate online services relating to newspapers or magazines, from classification as a rule specifically targeting such services within the meaning of Article 1(5) of Directive 98/34 on the sole ground that its wording not only refers to online services, but also to services provided offline (see, to that effect, judgment of 20 December 2017, Falbert and Others, C‑255/16, EU:C:2017:983, paragraphs 34 and 35).
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