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| Judge: Norwegian ISP Does Not Have to Block The Pirate Bay |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2009-11-07 11:22:55 |
| Every now and then you come across these news items that make just too much sense to be true. Earlier this year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry threatened Norway's largest ISP, Telenor: block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days, or face legal action. Telenor refused to comply - so it went to court. In what can only be seen as a major victory, the judge sided with Telenor. |
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| As it should be. |
| By Tuishimi on 2009-11-07 13:21:10 |
| If they have a problem with Pirate Bay they should go after Pirate Bay and not the ISP who has a duty (IMO) to have open access to everything on the "web." |
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| Comment by GhePeU |
| By GhePeU on 2009-11-07 16:26:00 |
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this is the industry whose only new business model in the past decades has been Sue Like Crazy™. Not true. They also invented "pay lawmakers to regularly increase duration of copyright protection." |
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| Comment by sbenitezb |
| By sbenitezb on 2009-11-07 16:44:16 |
| At first glance I read The International Federation of the Pornographic Industry. |
| - Score: 4 |
| Comment by big_gie |
| By big_gie on 2009-11-07 17:12:24 |
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Would it be reasonable to sue a city which provides the road to a building which some says contains an illegal business? Who's doing something wrong? The city or the business? Should the workers who built the road be held responsible too for something they don't have control on? |
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| RE: Comment by sbenitezb |
| By shykid on 2009-11-07 19:07:48 |
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> At first glance I read The International Federation of the Pornographic Industry. Glad I'm not the only one who did that. |
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| Sounds like frivolous litigation to me. |
| By shykid on 2009-11-07 19:17:45 |
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Seriously, what kind of legal reasoning did this federation use to arrive at the conclusion they could win such a lawsuit? IANAL, but in the states, I'm pretty sure such a lawsuit would be laughed out of court and have "frivolous litigation" written all over it. Edited 2009-11-07 19:27 UTC |
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| The Real Lack of Common Sense |
| By rexstuff on 2009-11-07 19:41:25 |
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The real lack of common sense is in the actual ability of an ISP to block access to a website. An HTTP proxy, or something like Tor is next to trivial to setup, even for not-terribly-savvy computer users. I cannot think of a way any ISP can easily block access to an individual website, while still allowing general access to the Internet that cannot be easily circumvented. And even if they did, or could, so what? How many other public torrent trackers are there? Do they seriously think that blocking access to one will slow the flow of torrents one iota? Once again, we have the problem of people and organizations ignorant of technology trying to use/implement the legal system around it. Legislators don't understand, lawyers don't understand, and judges don't understand; I despair that we can never hope to have reasonable laws regarding techology, copyright, and freedom of speech. |
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| RE: Comment by sbenitezb |
| By Tuishimi on 2009-11-07 20:44:03 |
| LOL! I did too. |
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| RE: Comment by big_gie |
| By Tuishimi on 2009-11-07 20:46:14 |
| I agree. And more to the point, the road was ALREADY THERE when the building housing persons performing illegal actions was built after the fact. |
| - Score: 3 |
| Comment by Luminair |
| By Luminair on 2009-11-08 03:59:00 |
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PS: IMHO I would sooner see another bit of OS news on the front page, this story is on every regular tech site Edited 2009-11-08 03:59 UTC |
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