March 14, 2008

Sweden plans to force Internet companies to release data on online pirates

flickrfalkvinge.jpg Swedish courts will soon be able to force the country's Internet providers to hand out information on suspected file-sharers in a move to crackdown on online piracy, the culture and justice ministers said Friday.

Sweden has long been criticized as a safe haven for online piracy since it hosts the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.

... Sweden's Pirate Party, however, which received 0.6 percent of the votes in the 2006 elections and who lobbies for an open information society, called the move a "sanctioned blackmailing operation," saying it was a major intrusion in people's right to privacy."

[via The Sydney Morning Herald. Image from boingboing]

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