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Swedish Courts Dole Out First File-Sharing Fines

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 20, 2006 - 2:07pm.
London - Two Swedish men who uploaded movies and music to the Internet were convicted and fined by Swedish courts this week, according to The Register, which cited a report from Swedish site The Local. In the first case in Sweden where someone was fined for music file-sharing, a 44-year-old man from Boras paid an undisclosed sum for making songs available from artists including the Eurythmics and Roxette. In a separate case, a 32-year-old man from Norrkoping was convicted and fined for posting a Swedish film online. The cases are of note because both convictions came as a result of supporting evidence consisting of an IP address linked to a file-sharing network, which a Swedish judge in a case in September ruled was insufficient to prove guilt.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/swedish_file_sharers_fined

tags: Law | Lawsuits | Tech | Piracy | Europe | Sweden | Rulings | File-Sharing | Fines |



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