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Swedish Man Fined For Posting Links To Online Video Feeds

Posted by timothy on from the you-can't-do-that dept.

hcs_$reboot writes with a snippet from TechDirt (citing TorrentFreak): "Over in Sweden, it appears that a guy has been fined for linking to an online broadcast of a hockey game. We've heard stories of people getting in trouble merely for linking to unauthorized content, but this story is even more ridiculous. The guy wasn't linking to unauthorized content. He was linking to an online video feed from the official broadcaster, Canal Plus. The issue was that Canal Plus was apparently technically incompetent in how they set up the feeds, and never intended to make the feeds public."

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  1. What constitutes unauthorized access? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    If something is on the internet, then doesn't that implicitly authorize access?

    1. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sounds reasonable to me. You're using up their bandwidth, and if you don't give them your money, they are losing out on profit that they could, potentially, have had! Do you enjoy hurting people who would have been better off had you given them all of your money (and since you didn't, you stole their potential profit)?

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    2. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by ultranova · · Score: 4, Funny

      Do you enjoy hurting people who would have been better off had you given them all of your money (and since you didn't, you stole their potential profit)?

      Yes.

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    3. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by Barrinmw · · Score: 2, Funny

      "She was wearing hijab, I totally get off on that officer! It's her fault for dressing so provocatively."
      "Well officer, he locked the door to his car, but I had this jimmy here and he didn't have anything to stop that, so it's his fault. He wanted me to steal it."

    4. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by ubrgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're right. Geocities certainly represented the height of Internet civilization ;)

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  2. Swedish judge by michelcolman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Didn't that Swedish judge use to star in the Muppet Show before he became a judge?

    1. Re:Swedish judge by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think you're thinking of the judge who was rejected for the U.S. Supreme Court, Robert Bork Bork Bork.

  3. The orginal reply to the complaint by paiute · · Score: 3, Funny

    But honestly Canal Plus, the web is considered “public domain” and you should be happy we just didn’t “lift” your whole hockey game and put some other team's name on it!

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  4. Re:I hope there's a sign on your front door by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, and if you don't have a sign on your front door which says, "You can't come in unless I invite you" then any Tom, Dick and Harry is free to come in and take what they like.

    Are you nuts?

    Unless Tom, Dick or Harry are vampires. Then they'd have to wait to be explicitly invited in ;-)