Mp3 Linking Ruled Illegal Yesteryear Norwegian Supreme Court

Afterdawn.com and the BBC study that Norway's Supreme Court has upheld the lawsuit court's before ruling in addition to decided that linking from a website to MP3 files is illegal fifty-fifty when the actual MP3 files aren't hosted yesteryear or inwards whatsoever fashion associated to the website linking to them. This illustration concerns a Norwegian teenager, Frank Allan Bruvik, who ready a website called napster.no dorsum inwards 2001 in addition to allowed his users to submit straight links to MP3 files that would hence larn a huge browsable listing of links to MP3 files across the Web.

By providing links to 170 MP3 files (compare this to millions available on P2P networks), Bruvik was held to receive got violated Norway's copyright legislation in addition to was ordered to pay 100,000 kroner (€12,126; $15,807) to Tono, the music industry's anteroom grouping inwards Norway. The ruling was identical to the lower court's master copy determination dorsum inwards 2003, which was afterwards overruled yesteryear Appeals Court who decided that Bruvik didn't violate whatsoever laws, merely the users who seat upwards the links, did. Tono's representative said that they were satisfied alongside the ruling, because it showed that music piracy would non survive accepted.

Tono: says linking is a Nono

is worried well-nigh the inconsistency betwixt dissimilar European jurisdictions inwards their attitudes towards linking. This isn't something the EU tin cure yesteryear itself, since countries such equally Kingdom of Norway aren't purpose of it. Perhaps a WIPO/WTO inaugural volition produce the trick. He likewise thinks this struggle has moved on a bit. Much of the marketplace position for illicit file sharing has sure enough been removed yesteryear a combination of the increment of authorised sites in addition to the fright instilled yesteryear legal actions against private downloaders.

Merpel is to a greater extent than interested inwards how they punish naughty Norwegians...

An artist's impression of hereafter penalization for copyright infringement inwards Kingdom of Norway –
provided entirely to the IPKat

Less controversial links here
Missing links here and here

Naughty Norwegians here, here in addition to here