Sweden gears up for anti-file sharing law
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- If you’re in Sweden and you “refrain” from uploading copyrighted material, and you only “occasionally” download it, you probably won’t be bothered by the Swedish police working for the entertainment cartels at taxpayer expense.
Probably.
“The Swedish government says it is drafting a law that will allow record and film companies to pursue Internet users sharing music and movies illegally,” says the Associated Press, going on:
“The proposal makes it possible for industry lawyers to seek a court order to obtain the identity of a person behind an Internet subscription in cases of suspected copyright infringement.
“Companies can then seek damages from the file-sharers in court.”
But the government says people refraining from uploading copyright-protected material and who only “occasionally” download such works won’t be identified.
However, it’s not a done deal, requiring parliamentary approval.
It’s now a bitter, full-scale global war between the entertainment industry and the people who used to be its customers, said p2pnet recently, going on »»»
There are now innumerable corporate divisions set up under various guises specifically to terrorise the general population into becoming compliant consumers of cookie-cutter corporate ‘product’.
Fact, a Hollywood unit, says a third of all Britons are pirates and one of the organisation’s lieutenants says, “As you know the UK has a particular problem with camcording. We don’t have specific legislation here and we are lobbying government to have that specific legislation introduced …”
And in the US, a state governor has just signed a bill to supposedly curb, “the disproportionate amount of music theft occurring on state campus networks via peer-to-peer (p2p) services”.
In Sweden, if a music and movie cartel inspired proposal is adopted, it’ll soon be easier for the entertainment industry is to use local taxpayer funded law enforcement agencies against file sharers.
But Swedish citizens aren’t taking it lying down.
A group called Stoppa IPRED has been started up on Facebook and Moderate Party parliamentarian Karl Sigfrid is trying to change the proposal which was recently sent to the Council on Legislation (Lagrådet), says The Local and, “The youth organizations of all the centre-right political parties are highly critical of the law.”
Stay tuned.
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Associated Press – Swedish gov’t mulls new anti-file sharing law, December 4, 2008
p2pnet – Us vs Them battle heats up in Sweden, November 14, 2008
lobbying government – FACT: a third of all Britons are online pirates, November 14, 2008
supposedly curb – Tennessee governor turns RIAA copyright cop, November 13, 2008
started up – Swedes unite against Big 4 music labels, November 10, 2008
The Local – Lines drawn in battle over file sharing bill, November 14, 2008
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