{"id":306431,"date":"2010-02-11T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1135248111.shtml"},"modified":"2010-02-11T01:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T06:22:00","slug":"norwegian-appeals-court-dismisses-entertainment-industrys-attempt-to-require-isp-block-of-the-pirate-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306431","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Appeals Court Dismisses Entertainment Industry&#8217;s Attempt To Require ISP Block Of The Pirate Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, a district court in Norway ruled that ISP Telenor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1147036838.shtml\">did not have to block<\/a> The Pirate Bay, since the ISP itself was not contributing to any copyright infringement.  Not surprisingly, the entertainment industry appealed, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/profile.php?u=kribys\">Kristian Bysheim<\/a> alerts us to the news that the appeals court has <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=y&#038;prev=_t&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;layout=1&#038;eotf=1&#038;u=http:\/\/www.bt.no\/nyheter\/lokalt\/Seier-til-piratene-1023945.html&#038;sl=auto&#038;tl=en\" >upheld the lower court ruling<\/a> (Google translation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.no\/nyheter\/lokalt\/Seier-til-piratene-1023945.html\" >original<\/a>) by dismissing the appeal from the entertainment industry.  It&#8217;s good to see more courts around the world recognizing that ISPs should not be responsible for propping up the entertainment industry&#8217;s business model when those companies fail to innovate themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1135248111.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100210\/1135248111.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100210\/1135248111&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=12a9953fd006aa07860c1cfe2cec32ed&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=12a9953fd006aa07860c1cfe2cec32ed&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=V57g2dcJ5b0:4qxDMieJn10:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=V57g2dcJ5b0:4qxDMieJn10:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=V57g2dcJ5b0:4qxDMieJn10:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/V57g2dcJ5b0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, a district court in Norway ruled that ISP Telenor did not have to block The Pirate Bay, since the ISP itself was not contributing to any copyright infringement. Not surprisingly, the entertainment industry appealed, but Kristian Bysheim alerts us to the news that the appeals court has upheld the lower court ruling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}