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."

Comments

Re:Come on

[popo]

"Hollywood, you can keep producing ridiculously expensive and wasteful movies"

One word: Unions.

It's the reason we can't do anything cheaply in America. They will of course, eventually immolate themselves -- as all efforts to extract more revenue than the system can support, ultimately do.

Flame away, unionites.

Re:OBT is not breaking any laws

[Luther Blisset]

No, you do not understand me just fine.

But I do.

Let me clarify again: "I disagree with your opinion."

I already knew that. So what? What does you disagreeing with me have to do with your inability to understand me?