Sweden Bans Copyrighted Downloading

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 1, 2005 @07:47AM from the a-less-friendly-EU dept.

Xiar Prime writes "Swedish lawmakers have made downloading of copyrighted material illegal, one day after an 11-nation piracy crackdown. Prior to the passing of the law, it was only illegal to provide copyrighted material, not download it." From the article: " The law was drawn up to bring Sweden into line with EU directives and is also part of a wider crackdown on net piracy. It comes a day after the US Attorney General's office announced an 11-nation operation to catch and shut down net piracy groups."

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Sweden Bans Copyrighted Downloading

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