From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:04:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Adjust file name and update text. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/2de2543225b9efbdbee05587683be003a02039e8?ds=sidebyside Adjust file name and update text. --- diff --git a/blog/data/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-court.txt b/blog/data/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-court.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0c6a2f98a2..0000000000 --- a/blog/data/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-court.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Title: A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll -Tags: english, nuug, offentlig innsyn, opphavsrett -Date: 2017-02-02 11:00 -Publish: 2017-02-02 11:00 - -

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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. 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.

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The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for -Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka -Økokrim) 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.

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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.

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From the other side there were -two people from Økokrim (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. Økokrim 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 -have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you too -donate to the -NUUG defence fund. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are -available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very -unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open -standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what -happen the money will be put to good use.

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If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out -the blog -posts from NUUG covering the case. They cover the legal arguments -on both sides.

diff --git a/blog/data/2017-02-03-popcorn-time-court.txt b/blog/data/2017-02-03-popcorn-time-court.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b8c8d0b354 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/data/2017-02-03-popcorn-time-court.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +Title: A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll +Tags: english, nuug, offentlig innsyn, opphavsrett +Date: 2017-02-03 11:10 + +

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On Wednesday, 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. 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.

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The +case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for +Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka +Økokrim) 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. And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal +and illegal applications. Popcorn Time is a client combining +searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with +downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the +downloaded content on screen. It can be used illegally if it is used +to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can +also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the 1 +million movies available from the Internet Archive. We created +a +video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time and played it in +Court. It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.

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I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court. 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 the Government have the +upper hand here with more knowledge about the case, better training in +handling criminal law and in general higher standing in the courts +than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member associations. It is +expensive to be right also in Norway. So far the case have cost more +than NOK 70 000,-. To help fund the case, NUUG and EFN have asked for +donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25 000,- so far. Given +the presentation from the Government, I expect the government to +appeal if the case go our way. And if the case do not go our way, I +hope we have enough funding to appeal.

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From the other side came two people from Økokrim. On the benches, +appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people +from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not +quite sure who was. Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses +from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because +they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a +translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway. All +seven appeared to know each other. Good to see they take the case +seriously.

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If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS +domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time +technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you +too donate to +the NUUG defense fund. Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are +available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very +unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open +standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what +happen the money will be put to good use.

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If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out +the blog +posts from NUUG covering the case. They cover the legal arguments +on both sides.