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Court Rejects IFPI Appeal For ISP To Block The Pirate Bay
In keeping with their new strategy of going after ISPs instead of end users, in March 2009 the IFPI, MPAA and several local movie studios began threatening Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP. Their demands were simple enough – stop your customers from accessing The Pirate Bay voluntarily or we will make you do it by force. Telenor boss Ragnar Kårhus refused to comply and the entertainment groups made good on their promise and took the ISP to court.
Continue reading »IFPI Takes Telenor Pirate Bay Blocking Case To High Court
In March, the IFPI, MPAA and several local movie studios began threatening Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP. Unless Telenor voluntarily blocked customer access to The Pirate Bay, they said, it would get taken to court. Telenor boss Ragnar Kårhus refused to comply and IFPI rolled out the lawyers and early November saw the delivery of the verdict in the case.
Continue reading »Norway Court Denies Request to Block The Pirate Bay
Rules Norwegian ISP Telenor and other ISPs shouldn’t be forced to decide which sites or services should be blocked, that only authorities can make that determination. Norway’s Asker and Bærum District Court ruled in favor of ISP Telenor recently in its battle with International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Norwegian videogram association (Norsk Videogramforening) and the Norwegian Film Distributors Association (Norske Filmbyråers Forening) over demands that it prevent customers from accessing Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. The Court ruled that Telenor is not illegally contributing to any copyright violations by The Pirate Bay and that there is subsequently no legal basis for forcing it to block the site.
Continue reading »Court Rules: Telenor Not Forced to Block Pirate Bay
The entertainment industry is a crybaby again. A recent ruling from the district court for Asker and Bærum was given against its claims and hopes. The court decided that Norwegian ISP Telenor will not be forced to block access to The Pirate Bay.
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Cow Gatecrashes Milk Competition
Tine, Norways largest dairy products company is giving its Litago chocolate milk branding a bit of a makeover. Rather than waste time and money employing expensive designers, they started a competition. Litago milk features a cow on the packaging so not wanting to break with tradition, Tine invited the public to enter their own cow designs.
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