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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI after being threatened and not backing down. 'The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its...
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OS News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every now and then you come across these news items that make just too much sense to be true. Earlier this year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry threatened Norway's largest ISP, Telenor: block access to The Pirate Bay within 14 days, or face legal action. Telenor refused to comply - so it went to court. In what can only be seen as a major victory, the judge sided with Telenor....
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The Local (Free subscription) | yesterday
Communications company Telenor will not be forced to block customers from accessing Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a court in Norway decided on Friday. The case arose after entertainment industry bosses demanded the service provider to take action.
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Corporate entertainment cartel efforts to force Swedish communications company Telenor to block Norwegian customers from accessing The Pirate Bay have failed. A court ruling states Telenor and other ISPs in Norway, “cannot be held liable for copyright violations that arise from illegal downloads and that a decision to block [...]
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PC World (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Norwegian ISP Telenor doesn't have to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, according to a verdict from the district court for Asker and Bærum.
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I'm heading over to Norway in the next few days to give a talk at the Nordic Music Week event, and it's nice to see that the courts in that country seem to recognize how silly the IFPI's demands that major ISP Telenor block access to The Pirate Bay are. Telenor was smart enough to fight back, and the courts have now said that Telenor is not liable for what its users do, and should not have to block...
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Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo, Norway - International record label trade group IFPI has lost its court case that sought to compel Norwegian ISP Telenor to block its subscribers' access to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reported. read more
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France24 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. It ruled Telenor and other Internet service providers in Norway cannot be held liable for copyright violations that arise from illegal downloads and that a decision to block websites is better taken by the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation of the Pho...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the arrest of just one hacker among many, it sheds light on the shadowy underground of the business of illegal piracy. It also offers a peek at how investigators...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With the demise of The Pirate Bay , isoHunt is now the second most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing site today behind Mininova , and ranked in the top 250 Web sites in the world by both Alexa and Quantcast. Fung talked with Computerworld...
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
UK-based P2P video platform VODO published its second feature film on dozens of file-sharing sites Thursday, hoping that worldwide exposure will bring in donations, subscriptions and traditional distribution deals. David Miller's documentary In Guantanamo, which is the result of a press tour of the controversial detention facility, has been downloaded around 15,000 times within the first 24 hours,...
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DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A study conducted by Demos claims filesharers buy significantly more music than people who do not download music illegally: People who download music illegally also spend an average of £77 a year buying it legitimately, a survey has found. Those who claimed not to use peer-to-peer filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay spent a yearly average of just £44. Almost one in 10 of those questioned...
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Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections nytimes.com Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics eweek.com JBB Research expects mobile web revenue to reach .6 billion by 2013 muniwireless.com Pirate Bay shutdown could be inspiring online militancy v3.co.uk Industry Self-Regulation Of Online Privacy Has Failed: CDD multichannel.com Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole...
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MONEY, CASH, HO'S by David Cho (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I DO , but a lot of people have asked me how someone might do this, so I thought I would share. Download a program that will let you use a torrent file to download something over the BitTorrent network - I’ve heard good things about Transmission (for Mac), not sure what to use for Windows but I’m sure if you google it you can find something. Go to either Mininova...
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themusicvoid | 30/07/2009
Despite all the fever pitch hype surround the recent Global Gaming Factory buying The Pirate Bay and turning it into a legal service TMV has discovered that it is now highly unlikely the purchase will ever occur. TMV has learned that the Swedish bankers quoted by GGF as investing in the venture, clearly stated they would not be proceeding with any investment. TMV obtained a leaked email sent to many
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