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Pirate Bay Block Violates Democratic Principles, ISP Says
This spring IFPI gave Norway’s largest Internet provider Telenor an ultimatum. The music industry group demanded that the ISP should block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days – or face legal action. Telenor ignored the legal threats and IFPI kept its word and took the ISP to court.
Continue reading »Anti-Piracy Lawyers Lose License To Chase Pirates
Earlier this month we reported that since Norway’s Personal Data act prohibits the storage of unnecessary data, ISPs in the country must delete all IP address-related personal information they hold on their customers which is more than three weeks old. This makes it very hard in most cases to track down illicit file-sharers. Now according to a Norwegian report , going after domestic file-sharers has become more difficult than ever before.
Continue reading »Data Protection Makes Identifying Online Pirates a Nightmare
Previously it hasn’t been particularly easy for copyright holders to go after alleged infringers in Norway, but just recently the country’s telecoms regulator said that file-sharers’ identities can be given to copyright holders, providing a court agrees there is a good reason to hand them over. This means that these individuals can be pursued through the courts, or through “pay up or else” type threats. However, the authority in charge of data protection in Norway has just made that process much, much harder for the copyright holders, since it has instructed two ISPs – Tele2 and Lyse Tele – to delete all IP address-related personal information they hold on their customers which is more than 3 weeks old.
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