Filesharing in Sweden is once again under scrutiny this week with news of the Swedish government putting pressure on ISPs. Apparently, Swedish Culture & Justice ministers are on the verge of giving sufficient power to courts to allow them to force ISPs to hand over details of subscribers IP addresses.
What this means is that people caught filesharing or getting illegal music downloads in Sweden can be traced and then taken to court. It’s another Big Brother move that will put enormous pressure on ISPs, whose entire business is based on giving people the chance to do more or less what they want on the Internet.
Continual pressure from anti-filesharing bodies in the US may mean that this gets approval in Sweden, the former home of Pirate Bay. With Britain and France following the US crackdown on filesharing and Australia looking to join in the fun, it looks like the developed world has a full-scale filesharing battle going on
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