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Swedish Court Rules ISP Must Reveal OpenBitTorrent Operator's Identity
2phar writes "An ISP must hand over the identity of the operator behind OpenBitTorrent, a court in Sweden ruled [Wednesday]. The ISP must now reveal the identity of its customer, operator of probably the world's largest torrent tracker, to Hollywood movie companies or face a hefty fine. 'OpenBitTorrent is used for file sharing, and we suspect that it is the Pirate Bay tracker with a new name. It is added by default on all of the torrent tracker files on Pirate Bay,' Hollywood lawyer Monique Wadsted said in an earlier comment. The ruling covers the customer behind the IP addresses 188.126.64.2 and 188.126.64.3 and/or any other IP addresses in Portlane's entire range (188.126.64.0 – 188.126.95.255) which have been allocated to tracker.openbittorrent.com since August 28, 2009."
We're still pretty cool. I don't think any other country has such a debate around intellectual property and YRO as ours. Also remember that the Pirate Party movement, that now involves dozens of countries all around the globe, started in Sweden. We're putting these issues on the agenda, and people are gradually realizing the ridiculousness of, among many other things, the *IAA mafia.
Quantum hacker.
Decriminalizing something like copyright law does not automagically make it ok to do no matter what.
One problem though: there's nothing to decriminalize about it, at least not in Sweden.
Just make sure the judge you get is not a board member of a copyright lobby group.
First off: Unions have their place. In certain situations, they are necessary to prevent a lot of atrocious behavior.
Having said that, very few unions are worthwhile these days. Most of them just exist to make sure people get more wages than their work is worth. They even out the good and back workers as well, making sure that nobody can get ahead for doing a good job and guaranteeing that nobody works extra hard because of it.
California is the only place I have lived that actually needs unions still. The attitude of employers out there is astonishing. They seem to think that anything they can get away with is acceptable. Unions keep them in check.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Will see? Winny, Share and PerfectDark are fairly old systems that dominate the Japanese P2P scene for many years now. All of them have the features I mentioned, in addition to built-in bulletin-boards, message streams and what not.
Speed problems in the USA and many other places have nothing whatsoever to do with these protocols, but everything to so with pathetic broadband services. BitTorrent is "faster" then older P2P technologies only because it was introduced later when broadband became more available and the general public, in its usual brainless way, decided that BitTorrent was somehow responsible for their perceived speed increase.
In fact BitTorrent has no speed advantage whatsoever when compared to many other P2P protocols, many of them based on exactly the same idea of dividing files into chunks and exchanging them individually.