A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll
+
2nd February 2017
+
+
+
Yesterday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member
+association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of
+the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It was interesting to sit in a court of
+law for the first time in my life.
+
+
The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last year, without
+following
+the
+official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority which require a
+court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
+Time. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
+Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
+Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen. From the other
+side there were two people from Ãkokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and
+Stian Petersen). On the benches, appearing to be part of the
+government group were two people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer
+office (Hedda Heier and Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I
+am not quite sure who was.
+
+
I did not quite know what to expect, but the government held on to
+their version of the story and we held on to ours, and I hope the
+judge is able to make sense of it all. Unfortunately I do not have
+high hopes, as it is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
+case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. NUUG and EFN have asked for
+donations to help fund this case, but only received around NOK 25
+000,- so far. Thus we are quite a bit short. And if we win, I expect
+the government to appeal. And if the government appeal, I hope we
+have enough funding to run our own appeal.
+
+
If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
+domain is hijacked by the government, or the Popcorn Time technology
+have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
+donate to the
+NUUG defence fund. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
+available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action, the
+rest will be spend promoting free software, open standards and
+unix-like operating systems in Norway.
+
+
+
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+ Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2017
+ Entries from February 2017
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/
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+
+ A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html
+ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html
+ Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:00 +0100
+ <p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg"></p>
+
+<p>Yesterday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member
+association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of
+the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It was interesting to sit in a court of
+law for the first time in my life.</p>
+
+<p>The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last year, without
+following
+<a href="https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12">the
+official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority</a> which require a
+court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
+Time. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
+Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
+Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen. From the other
+side there were two people from Ãkokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and
+Stian Petersen). On the benches, appearing to be part of the
+government group were two people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer
+office (Hedda Heier and Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I
+am not quite sure who was.</p>
+
+<p>I did not quite know what to expect, but the government held on to
+their version of the story and we held on to ours, and I hope the
+judge is able to make sense of it all. Unfortunately I do not have
+high hopes, as it is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
+case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. NUUG and EFN have asked for
+donations to help fund this case, but only received around NOK 25
+000,- so far. Thus we are quite a bit short. And if we win, I expect
+the government to appeal. And if the government appeal, I hope we
+have enough funding to run our own appeal.</p>
+
+<p>If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
+domain is hijacked by the government, or the Popcorn Time technology
+have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">donate to the
+NUUG defence fund</a>. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
+available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action, the
+rest will be spend promoting free software, open standards and
+unix-like operating systems in Norway.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
+<a href="https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/">the blog
+posts from NUUG covering the case</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
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+ Petter Reinholdtsen: entries from February 2017
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Yesterday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member
+association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of
+the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It was interesting to sit in a court of
+law for the first time in my life.
+
+
The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last year, without
+following
+the
+official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority which require a
+court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
+Time. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
+Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
+Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen. From the other
+side there were two people from Ãkokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and
+Stian Petersen). On the benches, appearing to be part of the
+government group were two people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer
+office (Hedda Heier and Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I
+am not quite sure who was.
+
+
I did not quite know what to expect, but the government held on to
+their version of the story and we held on to ours, and I hope the
+judge is able to make sense of it all. Unfortunately I do not have
+high hopes, as it is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
+case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. NUUG and EFN have asked for
+donations to help fund this case, but only received around NOK 25
+000,- so far. Thus we are quite a bit short. And if we win, I expect
+the government to appeal. And if the government appeal, I hope we
+have enough funding to run our own appeal.
+
+
If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
+domain is hijacked by the government, or the Popcorn Time technology
+have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
+donate to the
+NUUG defence fund. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
+available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action, the
+rest will be spend promoting free software, open standards and
+unix-like operating systems in Norway.
+
+
+
diff --git a/blog/data/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-court.txt b/blog/data/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-court.txt
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representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member
association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of
the DNS name popcorn-time.no. It was interesting to sit in a court of
-law for the first time in my life.
+law for the first time in my life. Our team can be seen in the
+picture above: attorney Ola Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik
+Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter
+Reinholdtsen.
The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for
-Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
-decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last year, without
-following
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
+Ãkokrim) decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last
+year, without following
the
official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority which require a
court decision. The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
-Time. Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
-Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
-Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen. From the other
-side there were two people from Ãkokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and
-Stian Petersen). On the benches, appearing to be part of the
-government group were two people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer
-office (Hedda Heier and Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I
-am not quite sure who was. All seven appeared to know each other.
+Time.
-
I did not quite know what to expect, but the government held on to
-their version of the story and we held on to ours, and I hope the
-judge is able to make sense of it all. Unfortunately I do not have
-high hopes, as it is expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the
-case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-. NUUG and EFN have asked for
-donations to help fund this case, but only received around NOK 25
-000,- so far. Thus we are quite a bit short. And if we win, I expect
-the government to appeal. And if the government appeal, I hope we
-have enough funding to run our own appeal.
+
I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court, but the
+government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
+ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all.
+Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as it is expensive to be right
+also in Norway. So far the case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-.
+NUUG and EFN have asked for donations to help fund this case, but only
+received around NOK 25 000,- so far. Thus we are quite a bit short.
+And if we win, I expect the government to appeal. And if the
+government appeal, I hope we have enough funding to run our own
+appeal.
+
+
From the other side there were
+two people from Ãkokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and Stian Petersen).
+On the benches, appearing to be part of the government group were two
+people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office (Hedda Heier and
+Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I am not quite sure who
+was. Ãkokrim had asked to present two witnesses from The Motion
+Picture Association, which was denied because the did not speak
+Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a translator, but perhaps
+they were present anyway. All seven appeared to know each other.
If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
domain is hijacked by the government, or the Popcorn Time technology
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http://www.nuug.no/cgi-bin/felles-postjournal?agency=Justis-%20og%20beredskapsdepartementet&caseid=2010/3655&casedocseq=22
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/what-happens-when-the-surveillance-state-becomes-an-affordable-gadget
+
+http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/
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