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- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html">I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</a></div>
- <div class="date">19th May 2016</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I just donated to the
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
-"fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
-site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
-me will do the same.</p>
-
-<p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
-hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
-talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
-combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
-and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
-make me worried.</p>
-
-<p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
-change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
-police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
-the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
-the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
-that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
-permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
-<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
-site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
-about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
-holders permissions.</p>
-
-<p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
-example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
-<a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
-and
-<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
-at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
-on
-<a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
-from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
-<a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
-Jon Wessel-Aas</a>. It even got some
-<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
-on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
-wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
-where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
-The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
-given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
-legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
-those that want to support the request.</p>
-
-<p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
-censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
-applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
-suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
-your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
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