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Swedish copyright lobby avoids precedent by paying file sharer’s fines and court costs

May 27th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, notes, politics

The Pirate Bay blog has a recent post where the author claims to have received insider knowledge on why a recent verdict from a Swedish district court (tingsrätt) wasn’t appealed against by the defendant, a file sharer.
I quote a part of a translation of the text made by the third commenter on the original post’s [...]

Finnish appeal court decision: breaking CSS illegal

May 26th, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, software, technology

Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the not very functional CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs. Watching DVDs using GNU/Linux systems is thus not something well [...]

Finnish court fines man for using open Wi-Fi network without permission

April 22nd, 2008  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, politics, technology

A recent decision by a court in Salo (link target is in Finnish), which implies that it’s illegal to use open Wi-Fi-networks without permission, is yet another fine example of the asshattery and uninformed lack of reasoning that automatically appears when anything related to information technology is on the agenda in today’s society under its [...]

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