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  10                 <title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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  16 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
  17 representing the member association NUUG, alongside the member
  18 association EFN and the DNS registrar IMC, challenging the seizure of
  19 the DNS name popcorn-time.no.  It was interesting to sit in a court of
  20 law for the first time in my life.&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;The case at hand is that the Norwegian National Authority for
  23 Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
  24 decided on their own, to seizure a DNS domain early last year, without
  25 following
  26 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12&quot;&gt;the
  27 official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority&lt;/a&gt; which require a
  28 court decision.  The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
  29 Time.  Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
  30 Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
  31 Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.  From the other
  32 side there were two people from Økokrim (Elisabeth Harbo-Lervik and
  33 Stian Petersen).  On the benches, appearing to be part of the
  34 government group were two people from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer
  35 office (Hedda Heier and Nicholas Foss Barbantonis), and three others I
  36 am not quite sure who was.&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;p&gt;I did not quite know what to expect, but the government held on to
  39 their version of the story and we held on to ours, and I hope the
  40 judge is able to make sense of it all.  Unfortunately I do not have
  41 high hopes, as it is expensive to be right also in Norway.  So far the
  42 case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-.  NUUG and EFN have asked for
  43 donations to help fund this case, but only received around NOK 25
  44 000,- so far.  Thus we are quite a bit short.  And if we win, I expect
  45 the government to appeal.  And if the government appeal, I hope we
  46 have enough funding to run our own appeal.&lt;/p&gt;
  47
  48 &lt;p&gt;If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
  49 domain is hijacked by the government, or the Popcorn Time technology
  50 have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
  51 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to the
  52 NUUG defence fund&lt;/a&gt;.  Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
  53 available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action, the
  54 rest will be spend promoting free software, open standards and
  55 unix-like operating systems in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
  56
  57 &lt;p&gt;If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
  58 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the blog
  59 posts from NUUG covering the case&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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