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The Pirate Bay Evades Being Blocked in Norway By the Country’s Largest ISP
Computerworld has recently stated in a report that following the verdict of Norway’s High Court, Telenor – the largest ISP in the country is no longer obliged to block its costumers’ access to The Pirate Bay’s website. The court’s decision finally relieves Telenor of the great amount of pressure employed by record labels and several other rights holders that were determined to take the ISP to court unless it gave in and blocked the Pirate Bay. Not intimidated by the threats received, Telenor refused to play along and the music rights association TONO eventually started legal proceedings against it.
Continue reading »Voddler Offers Movies On-Demand
Users can watch over 800 movies for free or at little cost. Content innovation apparently continues to elude the US with news that a new Sweden-based movies on-demand service called Voddler launched a few weeks ago. Though comparable to Hulu, users of the services’s free movie section are only forced to watch a single advertisement that appears before the movie begins, much like the experience at a movie theater.
Continue reading »Tunnelling to Denmark
Danish researchers have concluded that the nearly decade-old Öresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark is insufficient, proposing that a tunnel also be built between the two countries to facilitate the region’s growth. The study, led by Otto Anker Nielsen, a professor in traffic patterns with the Centre for Traffic and Transport at the Technical University of Denmark, found that building a tunnel between Helsingborg on Sweden’s west coast, and the Danish city of Helsingör, would benefit the region and relieve stress on the Öresund Bridge. Danes propose tunnel to Sweden – The Local, September 11, 2009 [On Saturday I usually try to do half-a-dozen or so posts, but today it’ll just be briefs.
Continue reading »11 little words … copyright infringement
With news that the Associated Press is to go after sites that post AP stories without permission — including links — in the background, “The copying and reproduction of just 11 words of a news article can be copyright infringement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled,” says Out-Law.com . Clippings service Infopaq, founded in Denmark in 1998, was taken to court by Danish newspaper industry body Danske Dagblades Forening (DDF) over its reproduction of 11-word snippets of news for sale to clients, says the story, going on: “The agency would scan in newspaper pages and use software to turn the image of the page into text. If pre-determined keywords that clients wanted monitored appeared in text then that word and the five words on either side of it were kept and the rest of the text thrown away.
Continue reading »How wide is the world’s digital divide, anyway?
It’s not hard for Americans to work themselves into a lather over the state of broadband in this country, which is improving but still not on par with the 100Mbps fiber lines widely offered in countries like South Korea and Japan. But it’s worth taking a step back every once in a while to consider the global picture: much of the world has broadband penetration rates under 20 percent, and the largest single group of countries has penetration rates of between 0 and 5 percent. The consultants at TeleGeography track broadband deployment in 127 countries and have released a chart that shows world broadband deployments by percentage of households that have service.
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