Sweden to launch copyright cop squads
The corporate entertainment cartels have scored another major triumph in Sweden, which is fast becoming their official arm in Scandinavia.
Three copyright enforcement units, staffed by nine “specially trained” investigators, are slated to start operating in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö this spring, says SVD.
With local taxpayers footing the bill for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, they’ll be supervised by Paul Pinter, described by TorrentFreak as the Stockholm County Police intellectual property crime division national coordinator.
Two prosecutors, Frederick Ingblad and Henrik Rasmusson, will also work “exclusively” to “investigate intellectual property crimes”, says SVD.
Although each three-person squad will be responsible for its own territory, they’ll also cooperate with each other when the occasion demands, says the story.
It doesn’t say who approved the creation of these units, under what authority, or what the annual cost to Sweden will be.
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