Finland caves in to Big Music
p2pnet.net News:- Big Four record label efforts to use the Swedish government to hammer the country`s file sharers have made no difference,” says The Local.
But it doesn`t seem Finland will learn from its neighbour’s experience, preferring instead to bow to the cartel’s demands .
Last month, Sweden made it illegal to download copyright-protected material without the owner’s permission but, “Looking at our figures, nothing has happened,” the story has Niklas Jakobsson, an engineer at Netnod, Sweden’s biggest internet hub, saying.
Jakobsson said the law “has not influenced the traffic” passing through the company’s systems, a message which was confirmed by other providers, says The Local, going on to quote Peder Ramel, managing director of Bredbandsbolaget, as saying:
“We have seen no big change either upwards or downwards. And that points to the fact that the law has not had any influence.”
But, “In keeping with moves in several other countries, steps are now being taken by Finnish authorities to stamp out illegal distribution of copyright music material via the Internet,” says Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat.
Suomen Ãäni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat (ÃKT, the Finnish version of the IFPI – International Federation of Phonographic Industry) has, “sent police requests for investigations of 28 individuals who they would like to see brought to justice for net piracy through the peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
“ÃKT wants prosecutions brought against persons who have been spreading music through file sharing applications such as BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, and eMule.”
Oh. Well, if that’s what the record label cartel wants ………
“The requests to the police represent the first concerted Finnish involvement in an extensive international operation targeting illegal file sharing and safeguarding authors’ rights and the legal end of online sales,” says Helsingin Sanomat.
But back in Sweden, Despite the fact that under the new law illegal downloaders could face a prison sentence, Ahlqvist said that this was not the kind of thing that people would be arrested for.
“This is a cultural thing. There’s a whole generation which has grown up with file sharing – I don’t think it will stop just because there’s a new law.”
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See:-
The Local – Swedish file sharing law “has made no difference”, July 28, 2005
Helsingin Sanomat – Finnish authorities gear up for strikes against peer-to-peer file sharing networks , July 30, 2005
August 1st, 2005 at 4:55 am
Awe heck this story was lookin lonely. Trolls and Ogres have united. Even Darth Vader admits they are becoming a force to be reckoned with. They just want “the truth to be free”. Well P2P says “information wants to be free”.