Danish Blogger Raided By The Police For Writing About File Sharing?
from the that's-not-cool dept
As a bunch of you have been submitting, TorrentFreak recently had the bizarre story of a Danish law school student and legal blogger who had been writing a lot about file sharing... and then was raided by police who were told he ran a private BitTorrent tracker by the local anti-piracy organization, RettighedsAlliancen. While the guy admits he downloaded some unauthorized content, and is a member of the site in question, he had nothing to do with running it, and worries that this is really more about harassment for his blogging. Rather than denying it, the anti-piracy group seems to delight in the fact the guy has a blog where he explains to people how to be anonymous online, saying "we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net." I had no idea it was against the law to conceal yourself online...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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You Know How the Saying Goes
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you would think so...
you should think so...
and stop calling me Shirley!
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And the last paragraph of the quote below is what I would like to say to "content owners" in a polite way.
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Source: https://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-industry-a-century-of-deceit-111127/
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YaCy the distributed search engine(aka P2P powered search engine) that is hard to censor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
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DAT Tape really pissed me off.I used those and my mate still has a few in the studio.
To bad there can't be a National Boycott Day or Week on Big Content.
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Several of these companies for all of their gloating actually have destroyed evidence in cases and rendered it unusable. One of them publicly admitted they had a "suspects" laptop and reveled in that they had it, the police handed them the laptop and they decided they could keep it. In the UK they botched the case so poorly that they had to return the raided peoples property, but they made sure to damage it on every level before handing it back.
This is not always about defending the law so much as it is blurring the line to trying to silence people they don't like by illegal means if need be. They lie, cheat, steal, and destroy real property... but people who share content are the "real" criminals.
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"But we can see that he teaches others to break the law and conceal themselves on the net."
is not the same as
"But we can see that he teaches others to break the law by concealing themselves on the net."
The quote is not making the claim that concealing oneself on the net is illegal.
Other than that, I find it deplorable that the legal system (police included) would act on this. If I were even slightly paranoid, I'd look at the relationships between the judge involved and the groups with a vested interest in copyright.
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Response to: Rikuo on Nov 29th, 2011 @ 11:44pm
I don't know what applies in this specific case, though - I don't even know if it was a civil or criminal search.
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Of course it is. Examine the context.
If the claim isn't implying that it's illegal, why say it at all? The only reason they would include it is an attempt to smear him.
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