Comments on: Finnish BitTorrent Admins Receive 680,000 Euro Fine

By: Ending

Ending — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:54:35 +0000

As a finn myself, I have to say that I feel ashamed. The court decision was reported in our local news and most of the readers condemned it as unreasonable. Of course, there were a few that said “650k fine only serves them right. Fuck their life.”

To put this in proper context, you could basically drive over someone and get a lesser penalty. Or molest a child and still get out of the jail sooner than a website admin.

However, I wouldn’t call Finland a police state. This decision just shows how vulnerable judges are to political lobbying and, sadly, in this case it worked. Our local copyright association TEOSTO (and probably GRAMEX too) were overjoyed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:34:36 +0000

Finland sucks. So does YouTube.

I don’t know how that 1 Mbit/s quarantee is supposed to work, because copper wires are being demolished and most of the country is out of 3G availability!

Using it wisely was a comment made by Ernesto, not a suggestion by the Finnish government…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:25:57 +0000

@ 46 fredrik

Thats why 80% of our population uses VPN on proxies.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:25:55 +0000

Finland very bad place to live police and copyright nation.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:11:40 +0000

Finland is ranked in worldwide place 3. police/copyright nations after China and Usa.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:28:54 +0000

I always though fines in Finland were based upon your income.
That’s what the police did to me when I was caught speeding.
I would hardly call Finland a police state though. It seems pretty relaxed to me. Mind you I’ve only lived here 10yrs.

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By: finfag

finfag — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:24:00 +0000

As a Fin my self I only feel sad about this.

I had used ed2k for years but had just head of torrents and wanted to join the fun in Finreactor, I checked the join page for 2 weeks and almost got in twice, but then the site vanished. so I ketp to the ed2k for a year or so until I found another Finnish torrent site and have been on that ever since.

But this case is bad news for all the Finnish torrent sites, and many may now quit in fear…

By: Miz'

Miz' — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:19:41 +0000

Not really a suprise
Finland is actually a police state.

not so good motherland after all,,,

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:34:18 +0000

@40
Humanity is not profitable.