Swedish Man Fined For Posting Links To Online Video Feeds

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, 2010 @10:03PM 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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What constitutes unauthorized access? by BadAnalogyGuy · 2010-11-20 22:05 · Score: 5, Funny

If something is on the internet, then doesn't that implicitly authorize access?
1. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by cheekyjohnson · 2010-11-20 22:29 · 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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  Filthy, filthy copyrapists!