Swedish Supreme Court MP3 Ruling

Molander writes: "The Swedish HD (Supreme Court in Sweden) rules that making mp3's available for download on the Internet is equivalent to public broadcast. Link (in Swedish): link. This means that copying mp3's over the Internet is not the same as making a physical copy and giving it away. This also means that mp3's do not fall under the copyright laws but are covered by the public broadcast laws. The young man charged is therefore found not guilty of any copyright violations but may still be charged with paying broadcast fees to the copyright owners." This sort of ruling wouldn't really help in the U.S., since the music industry charges fees for broadcasting music as well.

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Would someone else please confirm this?

[raygundan]

I would very much *like* to believe the above post that claims that the article was mistranslated to nearly the exact opposite of its actual meaning. If anyone other Swedish-speaking people would like to confirm this, I would be very grateful.

Alternatively, if anyone can point me to a translation service that does any one of the following:

Swedish -> English
Swedish -> Spanish
Swedish -> Japanese

That would help me out as well. (Some americans
DO know other languages! :)