Petter Reinholdtsen

NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no
18th April 2016

It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of the Norwegian Unix User group, a member association for those of us believing in free software, open standards and unix-like operating systems. NUUG announced today it will try to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as unlawful, to stand up for the principle that writing about a controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the police. The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime a month ago. I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.

Tags: english, nuug, offentlig innsyn, opphavsrett.

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