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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI after being threatened and not backing down. 'The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peek at how investigators...
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OS News (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
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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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm heading over to Norway in the next few days to give a talk at the Nordic Music Week event, and it's nice to see that the courts in that country seem to recognize how silly the IFPI's demands that major ISP Telenor block access to The Pirate Bay are. Telenor was smart enough to fight back, and the courts have now said that Telenor is not liable for what its users do, and should not have to block...
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PC World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a verdict from the district court for Asker and Bærum.
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TorrentFreak (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this year, the IFPI gave Norwegian ISP Telenor an ultimatum – block access to The Pirate Bay within days or get taken to court. Telenor refused, IFPI followed through with its threat and the case was heard earlier this month. The decision was announced today. IFPI lost the case and Telenor will not have to block The Pirate Bay.
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. It ruled Telenor and other Internet service providers in Norway cannot be held liable for copyright violations that arise from illegal downloads and that a decision to block websites is better taken by the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation of the Pho...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Corporate entertainment cartel efforts to force Swedish communications company Telenor to block Norwegian customers from accessing The Pirate Bay have failed. A court ruling states Telenor and other ISPs in Norway, “cannot be held liable for copyright violations that arise from illegal downloads and that a decision to block [...]
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The Local (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Communications company Telenor will not be forced to block customers from accessing Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a court in Norway decided on Friday. The case arose after entertainment industry bosses demanded the service provider to take action.
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With the demise of The Pirate Bay , isoHunt is now the second most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing site today behind Mininova , and ranked in the top 250 Web sites in the world by both Alexa and Quantcast. Fung talked with Computerworld...
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
UK-based P2P video platform VODO published its second feature film on dozens of file-sharing sites Thursday, hoping that worldwide exposure will bring in donations, subscriptions and traditional distribution deals. David Miller's documentary In Guantanamo, which is the result of a press tour of the controversial detention facility, has been downloaded around 15,000 times within the first 24 hours,...
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DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A study conducted by Demos claims filesharers buy significantly more music than people who do not download music illegally: People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found. Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44. Almost one in 10 of those questioned...
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Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections nytimes.com Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics eweek.com JBB Research expects mobile web revenue to reach .6 billion by 2013 muniwireless.com Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy v3.co.uk Industry Self-Regulation Of Online Privacy Has Failed: CDD multichannel.com Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole...
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MONEY, CASH, HO'S by David Cho (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I DO , but a lot of people have asked me how someone might do this, so I thought I would share. Download a program that will let you use a torrent file to download something over the BitTorrent network - I’ve heard good things about Transmission (for Mac), not sure what to use for Windows but I’m sure if you google it you can find something. Go to either Mininova...
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walkout | 08/04/2009
Like everyone else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more. Let’s start with a great fact: that, as Rasmus Fleischer of Piratbyran points out , the entire Pirate Bay could fit on a single USB stick. This got me thinking: what if someone was to simply scrape and copy all The
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barney1 | 04/17/2009
why do people choose the piracy options? i guess things are now moving closer to lock down for piracy as the sword of damocles hangs over them, but don't steal, go open source where ever and when ever you can and support legal individual peoples expertise.
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