Sweden passes law to ban music and film downloads from internet without royalty

Necrosis · May 26, 2005, 11:30 AM

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STOCKHOLM (AFX) - Sweden has passed a law banning the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet without payment of royalties, in a bid to crack down on free downloading of music, films and computer games

Parliament also approved a proposal to sharply raise the price of blank CDs, DVDs, videotapes and cassettes to compensate for legal copying of material.

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Necrosis · May 26, 2005, 11:30 AM

Ok..so they ban it and turn around and do some thing to make more people want to do it?

Tipstaff · May 27, 2005, 01:02 AM

The biggest effect this has is to crack down on all the Torrent site operators who moved their servers to Sweden. They did this to protect themselves, or at least their sites from being brought down as originally Sweden had no 'real' copyright law that effected users from creating a torrent 'hub' site. Now that this law has been passed it's open season once again on them.

-Tip