February 9, 2010
Published: 29 Oct 09 07:43 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22942/20091029/
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Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers.
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1. Anybody notice how quick this went right up till the supreme court and got heard? This usually takes ages... one wonders how the wheels got greased so well.
2. The audio files were behind a login, people would have to FTP in and enter their username nd password to get access to the files, the anti piracy scumbags hacked into the server to see the files, the did not have the login information nor could they prove that the login information was shared with anyone.
3. With the show trial of thepiratebay and open bias from that judge as well as the judges who were to decide the appeal (yes, funny isnt it?) I really have to ask the question: Will the Swedish judge who has not been corrupted by the music/film industries money please stand up?
(which will probably result in a lot of restless shifting in their chairs and nobody getting up)
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It doesn't matter whether the files were behind a login or not, they still had no right to be there in the first place available to anyone. The fact the files existed is a copyright infringement, they don't have to be distributed to become an illegal copy of the material.
eZee.se is it doable for ephone to destroy the info and take the 500k fine,better than loosing thousands of customers and a hell of a lot more revenue,or is a continious fine,so to speak...
If you rip a CD to your hdd the files exist and thus "copyright infringement" (not taking fair use into account) so someone should be able to hack into your computer and then take you to court?
What about using the same above example but rather than your computer its ripped to your ipod/mp3 player?
What about if you had the files in your email's "drafts" folder so you could access them from anywhere that you had a net connection from? After all, its behind a username and password there too right, and it has been uploaded to the email servers.
Wouldnt that be bo||ocks?
@Green Swede, I agree with you, they should destroy the persons details and just pay the amount, it would go a long way in showing their customer loyalty.
They had no proof that these files were being downloaded to other computers - except for their OWN computer - which, would that not make them guilty of theft of their own material?