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Music Biz Gives Up Trying to Block Pirate Bay in Norway
Had been trying to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to prevent customer from being able to access BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. It’s been a long time coming, but at last TONO , a Norwegian royalty collecting group founded back in 1928, and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have given up their bid to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to prevent subscribers from being able to access BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. The affair first began in earnest last March when Telenor refused to block the Pirate Bay, reminding the copyright holders that “ISPs are not complicit in the actions of its customers on the Internet.” Then in November the country’s Norway’s Asker and Bærum District Court ruled in favor of Telenor , finding that it 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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Copyright holders lick wounds The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and a pro-copyright group have given up their fight to get telecoms outfit Telenor to block access to The Pirate Bay in Norway.… ?
Continue reading »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 »Norwegian Royalty Group: You Can’t Upload Own Music to Pirate Bay
TONO tells the band Kråkesølv its management contract forbids member artists from making their music available on sites like The Pirate Bay. TONO , a Norwegian royalty collecting group founded back in 1928, is making it tough for member artists to reach fans in the file-sharing age. The band Kråkesølv tried to make its debut album “Trådnøsting” available for free on BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay only to find out that TONO explicitly forbids the practice of members making their music available on their own.
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