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.

Stockholm - Prosecutors in Sweden this week filed charges of preparing and participating in copyright infringement against the four individuals behind The Pirate Bay, the notorious BitTorrent tracker site that has been targeted for years by U.S. entertainment companies. "In case we lose the pending trial (yeah right) there will still not be any changes to the site. The Pirate Bay will keep operating just as always. We've been here for years and we will be here many more," reads a response to the charges posted on The Pirate Bay's website.

New York - Swedish prosecutors are preparing to file charges later this month against the operators of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing hub that U.S. entertainment companies and the U.S. government has targeted for years, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) estimates there are 157,000 movies, songs and other files available on The Pirate Bay, and that the site draws 1.5 million visitors daily, banking $60,000 a month in advertising revenue.

Los Angeles - MTV Networks' AddictingGames online game channel has partnered with Finland-based teen online virtual community Habbo, and will be the exclusive North American online game distributor for the site. Under the deal, Haboo's 7.5 million unique visitors per month will have access to free viral games and entertainment from AddictingGames, which attracts over 23 million unique visitors per month.

*The original version of this story incorrectly referred to Habbo, whose headquarters are in Finland, as a Sweden-based company.

Emeryville, Calif. - MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband video and audio content, said on Monday that it has opened a both a new research and development center, in Stockholm, Sweden, and a new engineering facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. The R&D center will focus on WiMAX and other next-generation wireless networks, while the Sunnyvale center will hope to better attract engineering talent in Silicon Valley.

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.

Menlo Park, Calif. - Power Challenge, a developer and publisher of online sports games, announced on Monday that it has received an $8 million investment from venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.

Los Angeles - Notorious Sweden-based file-sharing community The Pirate Bay plans to launch what it claims is a "completely untraceable" open source file-sharing application, as well as a subscription-based service at Playable.com where users will pay what they like and the company will compensate artists, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Karlskrona, Sweden - Mobile entertainment developer and publisher GlobalFun announced on Tuesday that it has acquired the mobile games unit of Italy-based distributor Bryo. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sweden-based GlobalFun said the deal will give it a foothold in what it considers to be a key mobile games market in Europe.

Stockholm - Musicbrigade, a Sweden-based digital music service provider, has announced a deal to power a digital music service for the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, which claims 1.4 million daily readers, Billboard reported. The service will offer a library of 1.6 million tracks and 20,000 music videos, as well as social networking, news and reviews. Song downloads will sell for about $1.40 each.

Stockholm - Musicbrigade, a Sweden-based digital music service provider, announced on Wednesday the launch of an online digital music service in Germany with partner RTL.de, an entertainment portal operated by the European TV broadcaster. The service will offer 1.5 million songs, licensed from all the major labels and many independents, in addition to Musicbrigade's catalog of more than 20,000 music videos. The companies said the joint service will be promoted with an extensive TV and online ad campaign.