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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. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some even ask you to pay to view their public content, or else they will sue. http://news.slashdot.org/news/10/10/27/2134236.shtml

  2. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by Xugumad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No.

    If they linked it from their front page, and said "View the game here", that's implicitly authorising access. If it was hidden behind a badly done pay wall, I think it fairly clearly implies you should be paying first, even if the technical side is a debacle.

    Leaving something unprotected is no more implying access than leaving your front door open. It's bloody stupid, but that's another matter entirely...

  3. Re:Damn it Sweden! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess the whole Pirate Bay issue introduced them to the wonderful world of corporate bribery.

    We got a suitable saying around here, along the lines of: once your reputation is ruined, you might as well lose all restraint.