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Sweden's File Sharing Debate Becomes Mass Brawl
praps writes "When Sweden's Data board gave the film and games industry organisation Antipiratbyrån an exemption from data protection laws last week it seemed that file sharers were on the ropes. Then the music industry joined in with some punches of its own, saying it too will hunt those who share songs online. Suddenly, file sharers have the support of their ISPs, who are refusing to cooperate with the big industries - and it's game on." From the article: "Only the file sharer's ISP can link the IP address to the person. If the ISP receives a request for such information from the police, they cannot refuse it, but a few calls from TT revealed that requests from APB would be ignored." We've previously reported on Swedish anti-downloading laws before.
"Information that hurts no innocents wants to be freely accessible." Could we please stop anthromorphising information. It doesn't like that.
Damn... at first I read fishing as phishing, so the rest of the post didn't make much sense ;)
I need to get out more.
No, this is the worst Rocky reference ever:
"Hey this is like in that movie with that guy. You know the one who plays the boxer? Yeah and he like yells his wife's name and stuff at the end of the fight. This is just like that."
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Are they really making such a fuss over these bands?
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