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Already being done: https://nrkbeta.no/2017/08/10/...

The US military already encrypts GPS for themselves - it can still be jammed, but it can't be spoofed.

Of course it can be spoofed ("meaconned"), even if you assume that the encryption cannot be cracked. An attacker can receive the satellite signal and retransmit it. This signal will arrive at the target late, but it will still be valid - of course the attacker has to manipulate power / jamming etc to convince the receiver that the meacon signal is the valid one. You can be sure much thought has been given to this topic.

The particular attacks in the original post appear to be related to protecting Putin. I doubt the military attacks get rolled out for such a simple purpose.

Breulykken in 1986 occurred at

Briksdalbreen, Nigardsbreen, Folgefonna

OQLT means

Origo Query Language Toolkit, Oscar Question Language Tool, Origo Question Lookup Tool

National Library Assessment Report states

Stored and archived, Norwegian Historical recordings, In living memory

That said, exhausting all possible responses is pretty easy (and it appears that these are the only questions after F5'ing a few times), so this should be easy to brute force, but hopefully it'll weed out those who haven't R'd TFA.

Why should a public broadcaster with no ads care about how it's distributed? Mostly it's a rights problem, if the production company is willing then NRK is more than willing to put it up on bittorrent. Here you can find full series like "Nordkalotten 365", "330 Skvadronen", "Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu" and various other single episodes for free, legal download - sometimes even in quality higher than what's broadcast. Obviously they will never be able to do that with licensed rights like the Olympics etc. but they could easily make it a standard part of their production/purchase agreement for local series that it'll be published online.

Your ideas regarding ownership is the old way of thinking about copyright.

The new one isn't too far away really, it just makes sure that derivative works are allowed as well.

It's a strange world which is developing right now.

Before, you'd need a physical copy of an item to derive something new from it. If I wanted to create a picture of me, Stephen Colbert and Calvin, I'd have to buy the picture of stephen, buy the picture of calvin, take a picture of me, and then cut and paste the images physically together.

This derived work I could technically sell to anyone interested in buying it without worries, because I've already payed for the previous images.

With technology as it's going, there is no cost to get your videos, images, soundbites to an audience, and with technology going as it's going, there is no cost to derive work from that original work. I can go to calvinandhobbes.com, get the image there for free, go to colbertnation.com get the image for free there, take a digital image of myself, and then use paint.net or other free software to edit this and post it on flickr, and anyone checking out my flickr account can see the image there for free.

Somehow money just didn't enter into the equation at all. Isn't that strange? What kind of a world is this? Should this be allowed? (a question which I find amusing because it inherently has the response "no" even though the proper answer might be yes) should this be banned? (another amusing question, because inherently it has the response "yes" even though the proper answer might be no)

So what is this phenomenon? I've created derivative work from another work which I didn't pay for, because it's free, and I've given my derivative work away as well for free for people to enjoy.

Let's look at what is the main thing: Will the original authors lose anything? The answer to that is a: No, the images are freely available from their source, they're not losing anything.

There's a couple of what-ifs regarding this situation regarding the derivative author actually making a profit from the derivative work, but normal copyright stands up fine when that happens.

The thing is, you can either control the source where people come to find your stuff, or you can lose that control and have no idea what's going on, how the material is being used, or what its quality is. your content online is also your best advertisement to get people to buy into your profit model, whatever it may be. See: http://nrkbeta.no/norwegian-broadcasting-nrk-makes-popular-series-available-drm-free-via-bittorrent/

For their (our... it's the state that owns NRK) definition of control is defined on the website http://nrkbeta.no/the-nrkbeta-doctrine/ I think you will find that they have left "the old ways" and actually understand what the new reality is about.

Have a look at http://nrkbeta.no/

Not only was Miro documented in the original post as recommended for watching the show, but it sounds like they may have been instrumental in the success of the project.

The folks at Miro say:

"NRK estimates that a high percentage of the downloaders are using Miro. Which is good, because using bittorent can be a complex task for non-technical users, but Miro makes it so easy to use. The ease of use is very important, because it encourages more people to participate in watching and sharing the shows. Technically, the cost to the producer for distributing to a handful of viewers, say 300, is basically the same as doing so for 1,000,000 people."

I'm Norwegian, and I've watched most of these programs when they were originally broadcast:

The discussion page on http://nrkbeta.no/last-ned-lars-monsens-nordkalotten-365-gratis-og-i-full-kvalitet/ (Norwegian only) contains a lot of comments from the NRK people where they answer questions about all kinds of technical details (camera, sw, scaling/de-interlacing from 1080i to 576p, redoing the first episode to improve the quality etc.)

They also explain that the main/only reason they cannot do this with most of their productions is due to licensing issues, particularly for music for the soundtrack.

For this series they planned around this from the beginning, including commissioning a custom musical soundtrack.

It really sounds like they are trying to make BT distribution the default some time in the future, even though this will cut into the income they currently get from DVD sales.

Terje

If you're looking for the actual torrent files, episodes 1-8 can be found at the bottom of this post: http://nrkbeta.no/norwegian-broadcasting-nrk-makes-popular-series-available-drm-free-via-bittorrent/. I'm downloading episode 1 right now, and it has 73 seeds and 42 peers.