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                <title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>

                <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
                <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the member association
+NUUG&lt;/a&gt;, alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;the member
+association EFN&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imc.no&quot;&gt;the DNS registrar
+IMC&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale&quot;&gt;The
+case at hand&lt;/a&gt; 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

 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12&quot;&gt;the
 official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority&lt;/a&gt; which require a
 court decision.  The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12&quot;&gt;the
 official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+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
+millions of movies
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/movies&quot;&gt;available from the
+Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; or the collection
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://vodo.net/films/&quot;&gt;available from Vodo&lt;/a&gt;.  We created
+&lt;a href=&quot;magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&amp;dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&quot;&gt;a
+video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time&lt;/a&gt; and played it in
+Court.  It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
 
 &lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to the
-NUUG defence fund&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
+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 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to
+the NUUG defense fund&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the blog
 
 &lt;p&gt;If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the blog

-posts from NUUG covering the case&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+posts from NUUG covering the case&lt;/a&gt;.  They cover the legal arguments
+on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;

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