p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- In the middle of this month Bahnhof, Sweden’s first independent ISP, put the cat among pigeons following the launch of Sweden’s corporate entertainment cartel-inspired IPRED law, “which turns local ISPs into corporate copyright cops compelled to turn user information over to the movie and music industries,” said p2pnet.

Swedish ISPs are free to destroy their customer data as long as there’s no ongoing case against their customer/s, said eZee.com admin Ryan in the post, going on:

“So that’s exactly what Bahnhof intends to do — destroy all its customer data making the IPRED law as useful as Paris Hilton in a Shakespearean play.

“Needless to say the news has been met by a lot of cheers by thousands of Bahnhof’s customers and a scramble by customers of other ISPs to see when their present contracts expire.”

Now “Swedish telecom supplier Tele2 has followed suit saying it’ll, “delete information allowing their customers to be identified, a move police argue could make the hunt for Internet pirates ‘impossible’,” according to Agence France-Press.

“We will erase the IP addresses after they have been used for our internal use, starting today,” it has Tele2 managing director for Sweden Niclas Palmstierna saying.

It also quotes Stefan Kronkvist, head of Swedish police’s internet crime unit, as declaring:

“In certain cases, this will make an investigation impossible,” said.

Stay tuned.

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cartel-inspired IPRED law – Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on, April 15, 2009
p2pnet – Bahnhoff IPRED solution: destroy the data, April 16, 2009
Agence France-Press – Swedish Internet firm to delete user data, April 28, 2009