Swedish P2P Filesharer wins
Written by Ernesto on April 06, 2006A Swedish prosecutor says Big Six studio efforts to nail a man they say shared a movie online may have effectively slammed the door in their faces. This means that individual filesharers in Sweden can feel a little more safe.
A Swedish appeal court yesterday ruled it couldn’t hear a case against a 27-year-old man who’d been fined the equivalent of 80 days’ salary by Sollentuna district court for breaking copyright laws, says The Local.
“He admitted making the Swedish action film ‘The Third Wave’ accessible to others through a file sharing programme.”
But not only did Hollywood’s Antipiratbyrån fail to move the court, “I interpret this as a clear decision that individual file sharers, if they don’t earn money from file sharing, won’t get anything more than a fine,” the story has prosecutor Håkan Roswall saying.
“That means we can’t trace IP addresses, which means that we can’t trace private file sharers.”
The question of punishment, “is decisive in determining how police and prosecutors may investigate file sharing,” says The Local. “If only fines are imposed, then the crime is not so serious that IP addresses, each computer’s unique identifier on the internet, can be requested from internet service providers.”
The prosecutor also wants the punishment reviewed, “and appealed against the judgement,” says the story, adding:
“After Wednesday’s decision in the high court, he said that a change in the law would now be required if legal proceedings were to be brought against individuals.”
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i think that we as a people need to unite and fight this monster-if onley providing money to tie it up
fuck the law if it can be put on a pc then its data…data is information and information is free fuck copy right its full of shit i only download 101101101101101 that is data so kiss my ass
one problem in all this is that property is what societies declare it to be. another problem is that the internet and computers have radically changed the nature of works which up until now have been protected by copyright, along with their authors’ livelihoods. it is clearly absurd, for example, to expect that people should continue to lug tomes of paper around while computers become increasingly compact and easier to use for document viewing.
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