Techdirt. Stories about "teliasonera" Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us Techdirt. Stories about "teliasonera"http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 21 May 2010 16:27:11 PDT TeliaSonera Fighting IPRED Up To The Swedish Supreme Court Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100521/0343109522.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100521/0343109522.shtml
Of course, many people pointed out that IPRED, beyond being unlikely to work, also created a whole bunch of unintended consequences and problems -- including a dangerous attack on the privacy rights of those in Sweden. And, remember, this is Europe, where privacy rights are an even bigger deal than in the US.

When the first attempts to use IPRED to get user info from ISPs were made, some ISPs refused to hand over the data, saying that IPRED violated the EU's privacy rules. So far, the courts have no agreed, but Swedisn ISP TeliaSonera is now taking the issue to the country's Supreme Court:
"The rules governing privacy and confidentiality have long existed in the rules that govern our industry and the IPRED law is brand new," says Patrik Hiselius, a lawyer at TeliaSonera. "It is important that there is a principled review of the Code and the Anti-Piracy Agency's interests."


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]]> privcy-rights-trump-your-business-model http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20100521/0343109522 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:29:13 PST Swedish ISP Refuses To Give Up Info; Says IPRED Violates EU Privacy Rules Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100118/0212467788.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100118/0212467788.shtml effect, basically requiring ISPs to hand over info on those accused of copyright infringement, many ISPs have begun questioning the legality of the law itself -- specifically noting that the law clearly conflicts with privacy laws already in place in Sweden, as well as wider EU privacy rules. Last year, the ISP Ephone appealed a demand for info, and now Swedish telco giant Telia Sonera is doing the same in appealing a demand for info on whoever runs SweTorrents:
In its appeal, the ISP argues that IPRED is in direct violation of the EU's data retention directive, under which the privacy of the SweTorrents owner would be protected....

"The protection of privacy contained in the directive prevents the application of the Swedish IPRED law in this case," TeliaSonera's lawyer Patrick Hiselius said in a comment.
Separately, TeliaSonera also pointed out that the court doesn't seem to understand the most basic technical aspects of BitTorrent, in that it spoke of "the material that is uploaded on the website" in referring to SweTorrents. But SweTorrents is just a tracker, and thus there is no infringing material uploaded to its website. TeliaSonera points out that the demands for information on SweTorrents, then, is "based on faulty technical knowledge."

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]]> privacy-or-copyright? http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20100118/0212467788 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:39:33 PDT IFPI Continues To Pressure ISPs; ISPs Start Pushing Back Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080327/154429672.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080327/154429672.shtml suing ISPs for not stopping file sharing. This is silly, of course. An ISP should not be responsible for what people do on its network, and forcing them to cut off a lot of perfectly legal activities just to protect an obsolete business model is especially troublesome. Unfortunately, the IFPI's early successes have only emboldened the group, leading to more pressure and more lawsuits. Luckily, at least some ISPs are standing up to the pressure. TorrentFreak notes that Swedish ISP TeliaSonera is aggressively pushing back against legal threats from the IFPI, noting that it has no legal responsibility to cut off file sharer, and the IFPI is really pushing its luck trying to claim otherwise. Somehow, we doubt that the IFPI is going to give up so easily -- and it certainly would be nice to have an ISP win one of these battles in court, so stay tuned...

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]]> good-for-them http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20080327/154429672 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:15:56 PDT Gunshots Slow Down The Internet... Again Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070821/003317.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070821/003317.shtml "random gunfire." That story got even more bizarre when a guy who was playing online poker at the time, blamed the outage on him going "all in" on the wrong hand (he claims he went all in just as the DSL turned off, but when it came back, it went in on a different hand). However, it still struck us as interesting that random gunfire could impact your internet service. Apparently, it wasn't an isolated case. The latest is that random gunfire is being blamed for a general slowdown in the internet, after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were "sabotaged by gunfire." Who knew that gunfire and internet wiring were such a dangerous combination?

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