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Swedish Lawmakers Want ISPs to ID File-Swappers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 17, 2008 - 8:29am.

Stockholm, Sweden - Culture and Justice ministers in Sweden have announced plans to introduce legislation that would force ISPs in the country to turn over the identities of suspected illegal file-swappers to copyright owners, the Associated Press reported.

tags: P2P | Piracy | Music | Sweden | Copyright | The Pirate Bay | Pirate Party |

Sweden's "Pirate Party" Influences Launch of U.S. Political Party

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 13, 2007 - 11:45am.

San Francisco - Sweden's Pirate Party, a grassroots political party started with the aim of changing intellectual property laws to lessen copyright powers, has seen its influence migrate overseas, as last week the Pirate Party of the United States announced its formation in Utah, CNET News.com reported.

tags: Music | Movies | Copyright | The Pirate Bay | Pirate Party | Copyright Alliance | Pirate Party of the U.S. |

Appellate Court Upholds Sweden's First File-Sharing Conviction

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 13, 2007 - 12:24pm.

Stockholm - The first Swede convicted of copyright infringement for illegal music file-sharing has lost his appeal before the country's Appellate Court, Reuters reported.

tags: Law | Lawsuits | P2P | Piracy | Music | Sweden | Copyright | IFPI | Pirate Party |

Sweden's Pirate Party Fails to Sway Voters in National Elections

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2006 - 6:38pm.
San Francisco - Sweden's Pirate Party failed to garner the 4% of votes in the country's national elections over the weekend that were necessary for a seat in Sweden's Parliament, Wired News reported. The political party was founded on a single issue -- copyright reform -- and gained much notoriety on the Internet following the Swedish government's attempts to shut down a popular Swedish file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay. While final vote counts aren't due until tomorrow, the Pirate Party currently claims 0.62% of the vote -- or 33,000 votes -- also shy of the 1% of votes necessary to obtain state assistance for future elections. Despite the disappointing results, the group plans to continue on. "Morale in the group is good and we are learning from this experience, as we are taking new aims for the European Union election in 2009 and the next Swedish election in 2010," Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told Wired News.
tags: Law | Piracy | Europe | Sweden | Copyright | The Pirate Bay | Politics | Pirate Party |

Morning Links: August 15, 2006

Authored by robert on August 14, 2006 - 10:04pm.
Slyck: Pirate Party Backs Relakks, New Anonymizing Internet Service
HR: MSN Video to Stream Showtime’s ‘Weeds'
Wired: TechTV Reborn Online as 'UndoTV'
NYT: Google Maps to Offer Local Coupons
AT: Music Industry Threatens Guitar Tablature Sites
WSJ: Should Web Search Data Be Stored?
LAT: Intel Explores the World of Entertainment
tags: Internet | Video | Tech | Piracy | Links | Pirate Party | Relakks |