The only law firm in Norway had permission to monitoring network traffic on file-sharing and ip-addresses of internetpiraten to collect his license lost. An anti-piraterijorganisatie there is not in the country.
“At this time hunts no one in Norway on filesharers.” said Cecilie Rønnevik, advisor at the Norwegian Data Inspectorate, according to Torrentfreak against Tu.no. The only party that had licensed to network traffic monitoring on the exchange of files via, for example, Bittorrent, which was the law firm Simonsen. The licence is issued by the data protection authority Norwegian Data Inspectorate. This appears to be the license, however, will not be refreshed to have for reasons of privacy. The appeal against this decision, at the beginning of this year, Simonsen lost.
Simonsen screens in more than thirty countries to filesharers and works in Denmark and Sweden, together with antipiraterijstichtingen. In Norway is such an organization, however, does not. “We are asked whether we have a license would provide to an organization such as the Antipiratbyrån in Sweden,” says Rønnevik, which declares such a request to take into consideration, if there is, which is not yet the case. Whether such a foundation, such as the Brain, in the Netherlands, there is is unclear.
A spokesman Simonsen hopes ‘problem’ will be resolved soon: “If no one has the consent to personal data processing for copyright infringement to stop, it becomes very difficult for copyright holders to report violations online to continue. They can share their interests no longer defend.” In 2009 became Simonsen his license, already for a time lost.