Swedish ISP Fights Anti-File-Sharing Law
Will no longer store IP address data, making investigations “impossible” say police.
Last week Swedish ISP Tele 2 announced that as result of demands from it customers it will stop storing their IP addresses in a bid to fight back against the country’s passage of a law making it easier for copyright holders to go after [...]
Swedish Pirate Party Predicted to Win EU Parliament Seat
Pirate Bay guilty verdict surges membership to over 42,000, and leads pollsters to predict it will surpass the 4% threshold necessary to get a Swedish seat in the assembly.
The conviction of Swedish BitTorrent tracker site for facilitating copyright infringement continues to reverberate in that country.
Many youth have been angered over what they see as an [...]
The Pirate Bay Guilty Verdict ‘Significant Positive Progress’ – United States
One of the major sticking points for many Swedish is the fact that the United States have effectively interfered in the daily internal affairs of Sweden when trying to take down The Pirate Bay. A newly released Special 301 report (PDF) could be interpreted as further evidence of tampering with the affairs of a [...]
Lawyer – The Pirate Bay’s Legal Demise Could Endanger Google and YouTube
Much to the dismay of Google, there seems to be a movement afloat to compare The Pirate Bay to the ever-present search engine. While many of the comparisons are technical (and this is far from a unanimous opinion), one lawyer is looking at the legal similarities between the two sites.
Simon Levine wrote a column [...]
SURVEY: 86% of Swedes Would Pay for Legal P2P
Swedish Performing Rights Society plays up the results, but admits was compiled using data obtained from ad respondents and not per a statistcial group model.
The Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) has released a study titled “Pirates, File-Sharers and Music Users”(.pdf) that claims 86.2% of online music fans would pay a monthly subscription fee [...]
Legal Music Downloads Up 100% in Sweden?
Follows April 1st passage of new copyright law, but without specific sales figures it makes one wonder if what was really worth giving copyright holders the power to sue an individual based on an IP address.
According to InProdicon, a Swedish digital content provider that provides over half of the music tracks downloaded through several [...]
New Swedish Copyright Law Cuts Internet Usage in Half
Swedish Internet traffic measurement firm says it fell from almost 200Gbs to 110Gbs on the day the new law came into effect.
Swedes are apparently scaling back their Internet usage after that country’s controversial new copyright law went into effect last Wednesday.
The new law, if you recall, allows copyright holders to seek a court order requiring [...]
Swedish IFPI Website Hacked
The Swedish IFPI website was recently hacked, but Brokep said in his blog that ThePirateBay is already winning the case and that this kind of support only damages grounds being made.
There’s been no shortage of dramatic events happening surrounding ThePirateBay trial, but one supporter of ThePirateBay took it upon themselves to hack the IFPI website. [...]
Researchers Want to Team Up With ThePirateBay to Understand Youth Morals
Researchers want to know how teens in Sweden develop their morals and social norms through websites like MySpace and ThePirateBay.
Over the years, ThePirateBay developers have gone from having a single BitTorrent website to a multi-purpose website that has been subject to anything from overall praise to illegal attacks from anti-piracy organizations. Now, it’s drawing [...]
SVT Officially Apologizes to The Pirate Bay Over TV Debate Fiasco
It may be one of the biggest P2P media disasters this year and now the media outlet responsible for a debate between The Pirate Bay has apologized for the incident. SVT blames an internal communication error.
There has been a development over at The Pirate Bay – and this development has caused them to cut [...]
