Earlier this year the Swedish Parliament passed the IPRED law, making it easier for copyright holders to obtain file-sharers’ details from ISPs. In the months that passed, no music and movie sharers were sued. Instead, the first IPRED case dealt with pirated ebooks, but this case has now been thrown out by the Appeal Court.
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15 Responses
10.18.2009
I think I rather like this ISP.
10.18.2009
people who think copyright infringement is theft and should be a criminal matter are simply filth abusing the courts and legal system in their respective countries.
10.18.2009
I wonder if the FTP username and pass was "anonymous", would it still hold up??
10.18.2009
finally a court with sense. if you can’t prove they transfered the copyrighted material, there is no case. way to go Sweden.
10.18.2009
Hopefully the trend grows and more people just argue for the jury trial with the juries exercising jury nullification of laws they dont approve of.We’ll see…
10.18.2009
Wait, it was a private server… how did they even know there was copyrighted material on there without illegally breaking into it?
10.18.2009
He is right. THIS is how the people can effect change in law when they are IGNORED by politicians. I am not sure if its applicable where this was but the point is sound. If they want to make it criminal then they have to deal with JURIES and all that that entails.
10.18.2009
The ISP didn’t even let the prosecutors READ the defendants information.
10.18.2009
"In a response to the negative decision Ephone consulted its customers, asking them whether they should appeal the case or not. Of the 20,000 customers who responded, a massive 99% were in favor of an appeal, so Ephone duly took the case to the Appeal Court."Lol democracy
10.18.2009
"Since the server in question required login credentials there was no distribution to the public, the Appeal Court said."lol wat
10.18.2009
pfff, just the daily torrentfreak.com spam.
10.18.2009
People in favor of piracy don’t have a creative bone in their body.