The following articles have been tagged with "Ifpi":
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Mar 13
Sweden is home to a vibrant community of file-sharing activists, but it is also at the forefront of a global recovery in music sales driven by streaming music services such as Spotify, AFP's Sören Billing reports.
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Society: 18 Jan 13
Streaming services such as Spotify continue to bump up revenues for Swedish record companies, new industry figures reveal, offering hope for an industry struggling to recover from rampant file sharing.
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Business & Money: 13 Jul 12
The Swedish music industry has seen an increase in sales in the first half of 2012, with digital services like Spotify to thank for the boost, new figures show.
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Business & Money: 24 Jan 12
While Swedish CD sales are continuing to drop significantly, record companies’ revenue from streaming services like Spotify is soaring and digital sales now amount to over half of the companies’ proceeds, according to fresh figures from trade organization IFPI.
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Business & Money: 12 Jan 12
Access to Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay was ordered blocked on Wednesday for clients of two internet service providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands following a ruling by a Dutch court citing copyright concerns.
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Science & Technology: 27 May 11
Record companies asked a Finnish court on Thursday to block access to the popular Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay.
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Science & Technology: 26 Nov 10
Three of the men behind The Pirate Bay file sharing site have had their convictions upheld by a Swedish court of appeal.
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Business & Money: 30 Jun 10
Swedish broadband operator Comhem wants a district court to seek the advice of the EU Court of Justice over an anti-file sharing law (Ipred) case, after the Supreme Court indicated that a test case was destined for the EU Court.
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National: 1 Apr 10
A year after the adoption of Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy legislation, new figures show that file sharing is growing in popularity, internet traffic has rebounded strongly, and only a small handful of cases have been brought before the courts.
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National: 3 Feb 10
Suspected file sharers were targeted in four raids at locations across Sweden on Tuesday, as police acted on information from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
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Science & Technology: 27 Jan 10
Countries all over the world are following the lead of Sweden, France and South Korea as the battle against illegal music downloads intensifies.
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Science & Technology: 7 Dec 09
The recording industry has decided to take a stab at using Sweden’s new anti-piracy laws to reveal the identity of what an industry association is calling a “rather normal” file sharer.
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National: 6 Dec 09
Following a severe drop in the aftermath of Ipred, Sweden’s new anti-piracy law implemented in April, illegal file sharing is once again on the rise, reaching record high levels.
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National: 7 Nov 09
Communications company Telenor will not be forced to block customers from accessing Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a court in Norway decided on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 09
More than one in three Swedes continue to ignore the country’s anti-file sharing laws, according to a new study by a recording industry interest group.
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Science & Technology: 29 Sep 09
A Swedish court ruled on Tuesday that a lay judge set to hear the next phase of the Pirate Bay trial is unsuitable for the job because he works for the Spotify digital music service.
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Analysis & Opinion: 24 Sep 09
Are lawsuits and threats the music industry's new money-spinning idea, now that record sales have fallen, asks Madeleine Sjöstedt, Stockholm's Vice Mayor for Culture and Sports and member of the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet).
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Science & Technology: 21 Sep 09
Rumours are circulating about another possible conflict of interest in the upcoming appeals court proceedings against the men behind Swedish file sharing site, The Pirate Bay.
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Business & Money: 26 Aug 09
The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular filesharing websites, was back online on Tuesday hours after being shut down following a Swedish court order.
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Business & Money: 7 Aug 09
The IFPI recording industry association has warned it will take legal action against the soon-to-be owner of the Pirate Bay, Global Gaming Factory, if the file-sharing site continues to operate in its present form.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Aug 09
Four months after Sweden implemented a new law to crack down on internet piracy, the AFP’s Marc Preel discovers that the debate continues about the measure’s long-term implications for file sharers and copyright holders alike.
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Science & Technology: 2 Jul 09
A storm of criticism has been directed at the three main personalities behind The Pirate Bay following news that the file sharing site will be sold.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jun 09
Sweden's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the judge in the high profile Pirate Bay case was not biased, as has been claimed by lawyers representing the men behind the popular file sharing site.
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National: 8 Jun 09
The judge in The Pirate Bay trial was not biased, Stockholm District Court has argued in its report to the Court of Appeal, which will rule on the issue.
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National: 25 Apr 09
Carl Lundström, who received a one-year prison sentence following the trial of the four men behind the free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has demanded a retrial in the district court.
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National: 18 Apr 09
Internet service providers refuse to cooperate with an entertainment industry group's demand to shut down The Pirate Bay.
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Science & Technology: 17 Apr 09
The jail sentences for founders of The Pirate Bay have been welcomed by the entertainment industry, but some experts question what difference it will make.
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National: 1 Apr 09
With the new anti-file sharing IPRED law fresh on Sweden's law books, five book publishers have applied to the courts to trace a suspected illegal file sharer.
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National: 2 Mar 09
Prosecutor Håkan Roswall's call for each of the defendants in The Pirate Bay trial to spend a year in prison prompted a derisive response from one of the accused.
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National: 26 Feb 09
The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted several times on Thursday following a heated exchange between a Swedish media professor and record industry lawyers.
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Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Tempers flared during The Pirate Bay trial on Wednesday afternoon as a record company executive argued the popular file sharing site was to blame for falling music sales.
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National: 24 Feb 09
Attorneys representing the four men charged in The Pirate Bay trial spent Monday afternoon challenging antipiracy lawyers about their knowledge of how the popular file sharing site works.
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National: 20 Feb 09
The Pirate Bay trial was interrupted on Friday morning as lawyers quarreled over admissible evidence, prompting a defence attorney to liken the proceedings to an episode of the classic US legal drama Perry Mason.
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National: 19 Feb 09
Two of the people behind The Pirate Bay took questions from the prosecutor and recording industry lawyers on Thursday, calling the popular file sharing site "a hobby site" and "a really strong brand".
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National: 19 Feb 09
The Swedish website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was hacked on Wednesday evening as internet intruders called on Håkan Roswall, chief prosecutor in the ongoing Pirate Bay tial, to "stop lying".
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National: 18 Feb 09
As the Pirate Bay trial entered its third day on Wednesday, lawyers for the entertainment industry defended their compensation claims against the four defendants, whose lawyers in turn did their best to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
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Science & Technology: 13 Feb 09
Swedish and international entertainment industry representatives are redoubling their efforts to challenge the legitimacy of file sharing website The Pirate Bay as the trial of four people connected to the site nears commencement.
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Politics: 17 Jan 09
The youth league of the Swedish branch of file-share and copyright reform advocacy group, the Pirate Party, has received millions of kronor in state support.
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Society: 8 Jan 09
Stockholm musician Kleerup claimed three awards at Wednesday night's Grammis Gala, one more than the evening's other big winner, singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 08
The pending trial of the men behind the file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been pushed back yet again and may not start before next year.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jul 08
Some of Sweden's largest internet service providers have made it clear that they would not support an agreement to combat file sharing similar to one recently reached in the UK.
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National: 16 Apr 08
The recording industry’s branch organization has apologized to a pro-file sharing Swedish rap artist for including him as a party to their indictment against Pirate Bay without his permission.
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Science & Technology: 31 Mar 08
Record companies are demanding millions in compensation from The Pirate Bay. "They can go screw themselves," says one of the founders.
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National: 4 Feb 08
Entertainment industry to turn focus to Sweden after Tele2 Denmark is ordered to restrict user access to the file sharing site.
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Science & Technology: 31 Jan 08
Four people connected to the Pirate Bay are accused of being accessories to breaking copyright law.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jan 08
A public prosecutor is ready to to bring charges against the people who run the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site.
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National: 8 Jan 08
The case is to be retried after the prosecutor dropped two counts filed against a 31-year old Linköping man.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 07
The owners of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay have once again proven their ability to cause a nuisance for the international recording industry - by taking over the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
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Science & Technology: 3 Oct 07
The public prosecutor in the high profile Pirate Bay case has indicated that it may take several more months before any suspects are formally charged. Sixteen months after police conducted a raid on The Pirate Bay, some companies have finally had their confiscated equipment returned.
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Science & Technology: 8 Feb 07
Record industry association IFPI has alerted Swedish police to file sharers and hub owners from popular file-sharing protocol Direct Connect.
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National: 23 Jan 07
The most sold song of 2006 was a homage to footballer Zlatan Ibraminovic sung by a 7-year-old from Skåne. The simple lines 'I love you, Ich liebe dich, Zlatan Ibrahimovic,' appear to have caught the public mood.
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National: 18 Oct 06
A man in Borås became on Wednesday the first Swede to be convicted of sharing music over the Internet. In another case, a man in Norrköping was found to have shared a film online.
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National: 15 Nov 05
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The music industry clamps down on file sharing: fifteen Swedes, who have supplied 150,000 songs, have been reported to the police and face fines of hundreds of thousands of kronor.
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National: 20 Oct 05
Sweden's rumpus between illegal file sharers and the film and games industries rumbles on. But on the same day that the country's music industry throws its hat into the ring, internet service providers put a spanner in the works.
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National: 13 Oct 05
The film and music industries are allowed to collect information about people sharing copyrighted material over the internet, Sweden's regulator says.
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National: 26 May 05
The Swedish parliament votes in favour of a law banning the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet without payment of royalties, in a bid to crack down on free downloading of music, films and computer games. Musicians everywhere rejoice.
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National: 19 May 05
A week before the Swedish parliament votes on introducing tougher laws against downloading copyright-protected material, Sweden's justice minister, Thomas Bodström, warns record companies not to prevent copying of their CDs. Confused?
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Lifestyle: 18 Apr 05
The list of signatories reads like the VIP list at an industry awards ceremony but an open letter from Sweden's top musical artists isn't about glamour - it's about "what's right and what's wrong". Note: nicking their music is wrong.
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