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Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay
C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI after being threatened and not backing down. 'The court ruled that Telenor is not contributing to any infringements of copyright law when its subscribers use The Pirate Bay, and therefore there is no legal basis for forcing the ISP to block access to the site. ... In making its decision, the court also had to examine the repercussions if it ruled that Telenor and other ISPs had to block access to certain websites.'"
It's cold there... Anyway it's nice to see that some countries have not fallen for the global brainwashing taking place today around the world.
Congrats to them!
(It's here, the dark ages began: we have to congratulate common sense)
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no wonder we won
id like to know how man judges are bribed to "fight" "piracy".
he who controls the spice controls the universe
Actually, I thought the dominant /. dogma was that artists actually should be fairly compensated for what they do, but also that million-dollar judgments in favor of record companies against Joe Schmoe Filesharer doesn't have anything to do with that.
Bacon makes everything good.
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop
What happened to the "safe harbour" provisions for ISPs ?
It's okay to publish Scientology bullshit and bomb plans on the net, but woe betide any ISP who "assists in sharing" an mp3 ?
Lucky us non english speaking people you american's would never insult us if we spell of pronounce anything wrong. And we really look up to how you treat Mexican/Indian/Chinese/Black/European/Arab/Poor/African people.
And we are really thankful for everything you push on us since we don't understand better.
I wish we was so open and understanding as you are. I'm really trying as you can see, but forgive me if I'm not good enough.
That does NOT mean they are entitled to write a single book or song in their 20s, and then sit on their ass for the rest of their lives.
Entitled? No. But if their work is good enough that they earn enough money to do so in only a few years of copyright protection (J. K. Rowling), so be it.
And there are even more extreme positions than that - such as that as soon as a copyrighted work is sold once, then anybody else can make money from it, the copyright holder losing any exclusive right to it.
No, this point is about as extreme as you can get without first violating privacy rights. Artist can make money on first sale. How else would the work make it into the public to begin with? You cannot P2P what's physically not available to you.
Once it is in the public however, then whomsoever chooses may share the data with the rest of the world at virtually zero cost and it takes the enforcement of global treaties and suspension of civil liberties to stop them.
In any event, this is the hill I defend. Artists should make money *creating* things, not selling copies of them or saying who anywhere in the world can or cannot make money re-selling or re-mixing the work they have already released into the public. The entire corpus of human knowledge is presently copyrighted, and no new creative work can be constructed save from elements that already exist; virtually all of which are already copyrighted or trademarked. It's simply time for this to stop.
Besides, how do artists make money from copy rights anyway? By selling their rights to litigious big media, of course, and becoming debt-bonded "celebrities".
But I'll head back to your original point. Perhaps royalties aren't immoral, and hourly wages really are an insult. I'll bet McDonalds workers would love that, instead of buying the burger you pay royalties to everyone who helped make the burger: grill person, person who assembled the sandwhich, wrapped it, and person who presented it to you on a tray. Let's not forget the farmers who raised the cows and the wheat, the slaughterhouse that turned the cow into ground beef and the mill that processed the wheat and lord knows what else into a bun. Read off the big mac song to see who else you have to pay. And they all earn a percentage cut on everything you do with the underwhelming boost of energy you get after eating the burger.
Suddenly, there is so much more incentive for these lowly employees to make better food; they profit directly from it! I'll bet the would all invest more TLC (and methamphetamines ;D) into your daily meal.
People willing to trade their freedom of expression for temporary entertainment deserve neither and will lose both.