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The Pirate Bay still accessible in Norway
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 websites is better taken by the Norwegian authorities,” says The Local , going on »»» Last year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) convinced judges in Denmark to force Swedish internet service provider Tele2, to shut access to The Pirate Bay. But Telenor argued that Norwegian legislation could not be applied in the same way as Danish law.
Continue reading »RealNetworks: MPAA Is ‘Price-Fixing Cartel’
RealNetworks is upping the ante in litigation seeking to prevent it from distributing DVD-copying software. The company argues the Hollywood studios are a “price-fixing cartel” that have no right to prevent consumers from duplicating the movie discs. The Seattle-based electronics concern is making the argument in a bid to convince a federal judge to lift the distribution ban of its RealDVD software (.pdf) that allows consumers to make copies of the discs to their computer hard drives.
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