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A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first person in Sweden to be convicted of file-sharing, having been charged with making the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora available for download from the internet.The Court of Appeal decided that it does not have sufficient proof that the film was uploaded from the man's computer. The lack of technical evidence has led the court to acquit the defendant of the charge of breach of copyright."It is difficult to predict the consequences of this ruling," district prosecutor Chatrine Rudström told news agency TT. "I thought we had what we needed without conducting a search. It is not permitted to carry out a search for this type of crime", she adds.
Swedish authorities have dropped the charges they brought against the Karlskrona (Sweden) municipality head of culture, who last year openly admitted to file sharing and encouraged others to follow.The decision suggests a divine judgement on the thorny issue of file-sharing - his computer was struck by lightning and cannot be examined.Or at least that is what Ivar Wenster told the police."They laughed when I told them," he told Swedish site The Local. According to Wenster his computer completely burnt out this summer. "It was my children's and wife's pc too."
