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. ...
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FRA Leak – American Communications Captured and Stored, Storm Continues
To say that the new FRA law in Sweden is controversial is really an understatement at this point. New reports have surfaced that say how not only MPs of ...
Swedish FRA Law – Party Dissension Continues Over New Law
Four MPs were contemplating on voting against the then proposed Swedish FRA legislation against party lines, but only one voted against while another abstained. While party dissension over the ...
Sweden – Fighting Back Against the FRA Law
They are mad that the law was passed and they are not taking it anymore. Many who were vocal about the warrentless wiretapping law passing are now taking steps ...
Exclusive: The Pirate Bay Blasts FRA Law Passing
It has been a fast moving story with word early on yesterday that major protests were happening outside the Swedish Parliamentary buildings on the day of the vote ...
Big Brother Comes to Sweden – FRA Law Passed
Earlier today, we reported on the imminent vote on the FRA law that would grant sweeping new powers to the FRA to wiretap people in Sweden through phone ...
Swedish MPs to Vote on Wiretapping Law – Major Protests Planned
Today is the day that Sweden votes on mass wiretapping across the country and the opposition to the FRA law has only grown since first report. According ...
Swedish MP – FRA Suspected of Already Beginning Surveillance Program
Following a seemingly global trend towards total surveillance, according to Swedish MP Max Andersson, the FRA is suspected of starting up their surveillance program without parliamentary approval. The news ...
ThePirateBay Joins Calls to Stop Swedish Surveillance Legislation
A few days ago, we talked about the new Swedish legislation known as the Lex Orwell legislation that could turn Sweden into a sort of surveillance society. ...
Sweden on Track to Becoming the Next Surveillance Society?
The administrators of ThePirateBay know all to well what it's like to be spied on. Though if security legislators get their way, the MPAA might not need ...
The Pirate Bay honors the the King of Sweden
As usual, those eclectic cats over at the BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay know how to make headlines, and this time it's about their recent decision to ...
Companies Sue Sweden Over Pirate Bay Server Confiscation
The recent Pirate Bay Raid apparently left more than just the "Pirates" without their servers. 10 other companies unrelated to Pirate Bay had their servers confiscates in the same ...
The Pirate Bay abandons plans for a sovereign nation
The world's most famous BitTorrent pirates decide to drop anchor in their home country of Sweden, saying the whole affair was really for them to be able to "look ...
Swedish file sharers fined
Two men who made music and films available for download over the internet have been fined by courts in two separate cases in Sweden on Wednesday, according to Swedish site ...
P2P Art: an Interview with Anders Weberg
In a recent article, BitTorrent Gets Artsy, I discussed how BitTorrent and other P2P networks have begun to transform the way that independent art is distributed. ...
First music file sharer prosecuted in Sweden
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 ...
Pirate Party falls short of Swedish election goals, blames faulty procedures
Sweden's Pirate Party was optimistic about its chances leading up to yesterday's general election, but the results are in and it doesn't look good for the upstart political movement. Under ...
Pirates Take Sweden
ON May 31, the Swedish police raided the headquarters of a major file-sharing Web site and hauled off hundreds of computer servers along with two men, in handcuffs, they suspected ...
New Law empowers Anti-piracy lobby in Sweden
Johan Linander, a member of the Swedish parliament for the Center Party writes that a new law, based on EU directives, has been proposed by the Ministry of Justice. This ...
How The Piratebay Raid Changed Sweden
A lot of things happened after the Swedish police attempted to take down The Piratebay. It’s time to recap and look ahead.
Torrentfreak asked Mathias from Piracy Unlimited (and Sweden) to ...
