Xerfas's Journal: Swedish Court Gets One Right: Won't Shut Down OpenBitTorrent

With the movie industry's lawyers recently demanding that ISP Portlane (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091118/1218246994.shtml) shut down the OpenBitTorrent tracker, claiming (without any evidence) that it was just a rebranded version of The Pirate Bay's tracker, it seemed possible that the Swedish courts would roll over again. However, in a bit of a surprise, the court has pointed out that it's a big stretch to hold the ISP liable (http://torrentfreak.com/court-refuses-to-order-shutdown-of-openbittorrent-091202/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3ATorrentfreak(Torrentfreak)) without more evidence, and has refused to order the shutdown of OpenBitTorrent. Nice to see that the courts don't always just accept what the movie industry says without further examination.

Story: http://techdirt.com/articles/20091202/1157037164.shtml