This will not be going down well with Swedish filesharers.
http://torrentfreak.com/sweden-to-introduce-controversial-anti-piracy-law-081023/Sweden, home of The Pirate Bay and the most active pro-piracy lobbyists and politicians, is drafting a new law that would make it easier to go after individuals who share copyrighted files on filesharing networks such as BitTorrent. The new law, likely to be opposed by a large number of Swedes, will go into effect April 2009.
The law will make it easier for copyright holders to get a court order in order to force ISPs to release the customer info linked to a suspect IP-address.
The new law is also heavily opposed by Swedish Pirate Party Chairman Rick Falkvinge who told TorrentFreak: “These laws are written by digital illiterates who behave like blindfolded, drunken elephants trumpeting about in an egg packaging facility. They have no idea how much damage they’re causing, because they lack today’s literacy: an understanding of how the Internet is reshaping the power structures at their core.”
We have good hope of putting an end to these ridiculous developments. Either the existing politicians start to understand what they’re actually doing at work all day, or they will escalate the conflict to the point where we’re replacing them in office. Either way, copyright will be scaled back,” Falkvinge added.
This is some serious fighting talk, lets hope the folks in Sweden are just as vocal as they where after the pirate bay raid and take toi the streets to defend their rights against the greedy commercial media monopolists that rip off consumers globally.
