Swedish MPs speak out in favor of filesharing

Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:01 EST -05:00   News  


If you’ve ever been to Sweden or met anyone from Sweden, you will have noticed how happy everybody there is. Perhaps that has something to do with why seven Swedish MPs recently wrote an article objecting to a crack down on filesharing.

Swedish MPs are pro-filesharing! The MPs are concerned about plans for a government-appointed body to ban users of P2P filesharing services from the Internet.

The MPs are concerned that a ban on filesharing would impose on people’s freedom.

From the article: “If you can use a service to send a message you can most likely use the same service to send an mp3-song, Those who want to prevent people from exchanging of copyrighted material must control all electronic communication between citizens.”

This is fascinating, because usually, as in the case of the UK and France, MPs are dead set against filesharing and all forms of music downloads that don’t please the RIAA.

The MPs go on to suggest that Sweden should be a hub for the exchange of information that is censored in other parts of the world! Amazing.

Also in Sweden, a court case involving a man who allegedly uploaded 23,000 songs for filesharing has gone to retrial. The retrial has come about because of concerns raised about “questionable investigative technique” used by Sweden’s Anti-Piracy Agency’s.

This meant that the music charges were dropped, but the man was sent back to trial for uploading 30 movies for filesharing.

This case will be crucial to determine for the future if Swedish police can raid the homes of people suspected of filesharing.

It seems that it’s all going down in Sweden. No wonder Swedish people are so happy if they have MPs supporting their rights to download music.

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    • rbl 16Jan08

      “If you can use a service to send a message you can most likely use the same service to send an mp3-song, Those who want to prevent people from exchanging of copyrighted material must control all electronic communication between citizens.”

      great:)

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