Activists in Norway have moved court against the country’s government for closing down and seizing a news site that reported extensively about a free torrents-based video client PopcornTime that has been widely blamed for supporting pirated content.
The site in question, PopcornTime.no, however, is believed to have never hosted the controversial software.
The Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) is leading the battle against what it believes is a clear case of legal overreach, and to prove its point, published the sarcastically-named “An illegal book?” which includes content from the site in question in the print format.
In an interview to TorrentFreak, EFN’s managing director, Tom Fredrik Blenning, argued that since the book is legal, the site must have been, too, and should be allowed to get up and running once again.