Danish police action against Popcorn Time – Fædrelandsvennen

Rights Alliance in Norway have more faith in blocking traffic to the illegal filmstrømmingstjenesten.

The illegal film pouring service Popcorn Hour which adds to enable users to easily stream thousands of movies for free and directly in the browser, has rapidly become very popular in many countries.

While in Norway while great deal of uncertainty and confusion surrounding whether Popcorn Time is to be regarded as illegal or not, one in Denmark always been clear that this is an illegal file sharing service.

This week went therefore Danish police action against two men standing behind pages popcorntime.dk and popcorn-time.dk, reports Danish TV2.

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Their homes were ransacked and the two men in their thirties detained. The two are charged with having distributed knowledge and instructions on illegal content online. Both have confessed.

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– Very harmful for the industry

In a survey by TNS Gallup completed eight percent responded that they use the service weekly, while three percent said they use it daily. This equates to around 315,000 Norwegian viewers.

Also MediaVision has done a survey. It shows that 750,000 Norwegians are willing to avail themselves of the opportunity to illegal streaming of movies and TV series.

Leader of Rights Alliance Norway, Willy Johansen, has seen with concern how Popcorn Time has increased in popularity here at home.

– It is made estimates showing that 500,000 Norwegians use Popcorn Hour daily. It is very damaging for the industry, says Johansen.

Claims solution is simple

He is pleased that the Danish police have taken action against those who have paved the way for Popcorn Time in Denmark, but says that it is difficult to identify those behind.

– We have the IP address to thousands of Popcorn Hour users, but has not yet managed to identify some facilitators. It is not even certain that they are such in Norway and Popcorn Hour is a program we can not report to the police, says Johansen, who has not believe that the Norwegian police will start an investigation on its own initiative.

Johansen believes the best solution rather imposing bredbåndstilbyderene blocking traffic.

– It’s easy, and we believe that the Ministry of Culture after having determined that the Popcorn Hour is illegal, they followed up to impose broadband providers to block Popcorn Time. Now we have to go to court, which is both time-consuming and very expensive process, says Johansen.

Working with revision of åndsverskloven

When asked what one thinks about the traffic blockage Rights Alliance proposes responds Ministry of Culture’s following in an email:

“In copyright law there is a separate chapter on measures at violations of copyright on the Internet. The licensees have the ability to identify who uses an IP address to copyright infringements. There are also provisions allowing licensees the opportunity to go to court to get prevent access to websites used in connection with copyright infringements. The Ministry is working on a revision of the Copyright Act, where everyone is given the opportunity to provide input. “

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