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Poland: 9 People Held by Police for... Translating Movies
polishlinux.org — Nine people involved in a community portal Napisy.org have been held for questioning by Polish police forces. The possible accusation is publishing illegal translations of foreign movies. The website (already shut down) was located on German servers. In Polish copyright law any “processing” of others’ content including translating is prohibited.
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- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5This is kind of a duplicate of http://digg.com/movies/Poland_9_People_Arrested_for_Translating_Movies but the first story was rated as "inaccurate" probably due to the term "arrested" instead of "held by police" or "held for questioning". Thus, I'm submitting a corrected version.
Here are some other comments in the net confirming the story as accurate:
- Poland’s most popular piracy website shut down by police: http://sciitnews.com/news_2655.html
- Translation of the official Police statement on napisy.org: http://www.betonblog.pl/2007/05/17/napisyorg/ - harad, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I hope they will be fine and cleared of any allegations.
But this situation has to be informed to bigger publicity as this is every day ***** in Poland. - mandarin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Maybe they were translating porn movies....
- smoqonline, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0They where kept for distributing community translated subtitles? No way they did translate even little piece of it - there where thousands of users who typed all nights listening to the original tracks - will they grab them too? Silly little rabbits :/
- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yes, the police is actually going to arrest the most active translators. It won't be hard I guess since in napisy.org they had a reward system for adding the most translations (rankings, etc) so people usually submitted from their accounts, and it's easy to identify them this way.
But in general, I'm not sure which paragraph they were accused of violating (especially the administrators and moderators). I don't think there is one. And hopefully it will be eventually explained since currently the police did not say anything precise about the case...
- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Yes, the police is actually going to arrest the most active translators. It won't be hard I guess since in napisy.org they had a reward system for adding the most translations (rankings, etc) so people usually submitted from their accounts, and it's easy to identify them this way.
- JanWinnicki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0www.policja.pl server is down lol
- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Is it just Digg effect (but where is the link?) or what some organized DDOS action, perhaps?
Message to the unaware: policja.pl is the official service of Polish police forces.
- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Is it just Digg effect (but where is the link?) or what some organized DDOS action, perhaps?
- michuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The news disappeared again (it's neither on the main page nor in the upcoming section). I'm wondering why.
- monarchista, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Seems that ZPAV boys have finally reached Digg ;)
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