The first person to be prosecuted in Sweden for illegally sharing music files appeared in court this week in what is being seen as a test case for Swedish copyright law.
The 44 year old man is said by the music industry body Ipfi, which brought the prosectution against him, to have made 13,000 mp3 files available illegally using the Direct Connect programme.
But the prosecutor is focusing on just four songs: ‘It must have been love’ by Roxette, ‘There must be an angel’ by Eurythmics, ‘Sarah’ by Mauro Scocco and ‘Vara vänner’ by Jakob Hellman.
“I never downloaded as much as is claimed,” said the 44 year old man to local paper Borås Tidning.
