Swedish Court Clears Teen for Linking to MP3s

mml writes "Earlier this year a 17 year old in Skövde, Sweden was charged with various offences relating to linking pirated MP3s. Yesterday (Monday 27. December 1999), the court in Göta, Sweden, decided that "it is legal to have links to pirated music on a homepage in Sweden if the links are to a server in a country where it isn't illegal to pirate music." (Metro 28. December 1999, p. 16) The article also says that the 17 year old was cleared mostly on the basis that the prosecution had not convinced the court that most of the links went to the US. Slashdot ran the original story and a followup in September. "