Sweden’s filesharing war continues

Sweden’s crackdown on filesharing is becoming more of a reality as days goes by. It was initially thought (hoped) that the Swedish government would not clamp down on filesharing, but then a couple of weeks ago it was announced that courts will soon be able to force ISPs to give up the IPs of people who use filesharing programs like Limewire to obtain copyrighted material.

Previous ideas to block Internet access of filesharing users have been dropped in favor of this new response. This takes a lot of the pressure off of ISPs, who would have had to police their own networks for filesharing highway bandits.

Now, it’s up to the courts to find people who are downloading music illegally. Sweden is the original home of filesharing website the Pirate Bay. This is just the latest in a series of Europe-wide steps to be applied to ridding the Internet of filesharing.

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Posted on 23 March 2008 by mike in Filesharing