"Today the Swedish record industry is for the first time announcing legal actions against large-scale illegal file-sharing," IFPI chief executive John Kennedy told a Stockholm news conference.
The move was "a very significant escalation of our enforcement actions for people who are uploading and swapping copyrighted music," he said. Sweden was joined on Tuesday by Switzerland, Argentina, Hong Kong and Singapore, taking to 17 the number of countries where people caught sharing music files illegally will face financial penalties.
"The message is that, from Sweden to Hong Kong and from Singapore to Argentina, there are no havens for the theft of music on the Internet," Kennedy said. Some 2,100 legal actions had been launched in 16 countries outside the United States and payments have averaged 3,000 euros (3,500 dollars) per case, he said.
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