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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."

3 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What is the link? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    From my parents' in Wyoming, I stab at thee!

  2. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by emgaithoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my opinion : it isn't reasonable http://www.sieuthisimthe.com.vn/

  3. Re:What constitutes unauthorized access? by VortexCortex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, I have to disagree. If something does not tell me "Not for you!" or require authentication, it is open to the public.

    I agree. I also agree that women should wear burkas or else they are asking for it.

    Bad analogy. A better analogy: If a sober women has consensual sex with you then, days later she decides that since you didn't marry her afterwards the previous sex was rape.

    But hey, this case is in Sweden, and women CAN just change their minds days later and call consensual sex rape in Sweden (see: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/18/1318246/Swedish-Court-Order-Detention-of-Wikileaks-Founder-Assange).