From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 09:38:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: New post.
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+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
+
+<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 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.  All seven appeared to know each other.</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 too
+<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 (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.</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>.  They cover the legal arguments
+on both sides.</p>