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Court Rejects IFPI Appeal For ISP To Block The Pirate Bay

Zocor — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:31 +0000

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.

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Court Rejects IFPI Appeal For ISP To Block The Pirate Bay

IFPI Takes Telenor Pirate Bay Blocking Case To High Court

Adi — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:57:11 +0000

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.

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Norway Court Denies Request to Block The Pirate Bay

Zocor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:07:53 +0000

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.

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Court Rules: Telenor Not Forced to Block Pirate Bay

AgentSmith — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:49:21 +0000

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.

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Pirate Bay Cow Gatecrashes Milk Competition

Adi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:40:46 +0000

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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Pirate Bay Cow Gatecrashes Milk Competition

Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400

AgentSmith — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:22:00 +0000

How did a Norwegian electricity company become the biggest fiber-to-the-home provider in the country? By adopting an innovative business model, offering faster speeds at identical prices, and—most unusual of all—letting customers save a few hundred bucks by digging their own fiber trenches through their backyards. We spoke to the company about the willingness that Norwegians have shown to get involved in laying their own infrastructure.

File sharers Big Music’s best customers

Adi — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:53:41 +0000

According to a new study, far from being the death of the corporate music industry, file sharing may be helping to keep it on life support. A new report says people who, “download music illegally are also 10 times more likely to pay for songs than those who don’t,” says The Guardian . This is only news to the mainstream media.

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File sharers Big Music’s best customers

Norway Makes it Easier to Go After File-Sharers

Adi — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:01:43 +0000

Norwegian file-sharers transferring illicit content on the Internet are about to find out that their identities aren’t as secure as they were previously. To date, the identities of these file-sharers has been kept secret as privacy rules have largely stopped copyright holders discovering real-life names behind IP addresses. All that is set to change as Norway’s Post and Telecommunications Regulator has just decided that if a court feels there is good enough reason, it can force ISPs to hand over the names and addresses of illicit file-sharers to copyright holders.

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Norway Makes it Easier to Go After File-Sharers