March 20, 2010
Piratbyrån
The following articles have been tagged with "Piratbyrån":
Court overturns ruling in audio book piracy case
Science & Technology: 13 Oct 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone is not obligated to hand over customer information to five book publishers, according to a decision by the Svea Court of Appeal which overturns a lower court ruling.
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Swede caught with 10,000 films in file sharing raid
National: 26 Aug 09
A 33-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden has been arrested for alleged crimes in breach of copyright legislation. Police are reported to have uncovered up to 10,000 films hidden in the man's cellar after receiving a tip off.
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Film makers tackle ISP over pirated movie files
Science & Technology: 3 Aug 09
Four film companies have filed a motion in a Swedish court to force TeliaSonera to release details about the operators of the Swetorrents file sharing website.
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Pirate Bay served with Dutch lawsuit via Twitter and Facebook
Science & Technology: 24 Jun 09
An entertainment industry association from the Netherlands has used Twitter and Facebook to deliver a court summons to the three men behind The Pirate Bay file sharing site.
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Showbiz reps appeal for more Pirate Bay loot
Science & Technology: 20 May 09
The US entertainment companies who last month claimed victory in The Pirate Bay trial have now appealed the verdict, arguing that the fines imposed on the four men convicted in the case were too low.
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'Swedish anti-piracy and privacy laws clash'
Science & Technology: 20 May 09
Sweden’s recently enacted anti-file sharing law will be rendered totally ineffectual when the government implements new rules on the storage of personal data next year, according to the head of a Swedish internet provider.
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Fewer Swedes file sharing: study
Science & Technology: 14 May 09
Tougher laws and guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay Trial have given Swedish file sharers cold feet, according to a new study.
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New law sees Swedish web traffic plunge
Science & Technology: 30 Apr 09
A month into life under tougher anti-internet piracy measures, new statistics suggest that Swedes have abandoned their previous enthusiasm for internet file sharing.
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Two Swedes arrested in file sharing raid
Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Two men have been arrested in Skövde in southern Sweden on suspicion of breaching copyright legislation.
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New law increases demand for anonymous web surfing
Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Anonymous internet surfing has become more popular in Sweden as the country's new anti-file sharing measures come into force.
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New law sees dip in internet traffic
Science & Technology: 2 Apr 09
Internet use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent on Wednesday, as the country's new anti-file sharing measures came into force.
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Police in 'biggest ever' piracy raid
Science & Technology: 6 Mar 09
Police in the Stockholm area have seized a computer server believed to contain the largest quantity of pirated material ever discovered in Sweden.
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Pirate Bay 'biggest and baddest villain': exec
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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Showbiz lawyers: 'we've used The Pirate Bay'
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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Pirate Bay trial starts on Monday
Society: 12 Feb 09
Operators of The Pirate Bay stand trial on Monday in Stockholm. The four defendants from the popular file-sharing web site are charged with being accessories to breaking copyright law and may face fines or up to two years in prison if found guilty.
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‘Are they baby-eating monsters or what?’
Analysis & Opinion: 1 Oct 08
Pirates, pioneers, or petty thieves? Majsan Boström meets Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the leading figures from file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay.
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Conviction in Swedish file sharing case
National: 5 May 08
A 31-year-old man at the heart of Sweden’s largest file sharing case to date was convicted in Linköping District Court on Monday.
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Four indicted in Pirate Bay case
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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Warning over fake police emails
Science & Technology: 20 Dec 07
False emails purporting to come from the police, which warn recipients that they are suspected of copyright breaches, have been circulating in Sweden.
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Pirate Bay trial delayed
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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Fresh clampdown on internet piracy
Society: 9 Jul 07
The Swedish Justice Department has launched a new proposal that would enable copyright holders to find out the identities of people illegally sharing their material on the internet.
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Fine for filesharer 'puts stop to police action'
Science & Technology: 12 Jun 07
A 45-year-old man has been fined by the Appeal Court in Gothenburg after making four music tracks available over the internet. A victory for file sharers, say campaigners.
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The Pirate Bay hacked
Society: 11 May 07
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been hacked. The unauthorized entry via a bug in the code resulted in the theft of the usernames and passwords of all 1.6 million registered users.
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Police cleared of wrongdoing in Pirate Bay raid
National: 2 Apr 07
Swedish police and prosecutors acted within their rights when they raided the Pirate Bay in May last year, according to an investigation by the Justice Ombudsman.
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Hackers crash Swedish government web site
Smörgåsbord: 4 Jun 06
The file sharing fight steps up a notch: the Swedish government web site was out of action overnight and the police site was offline again on Sunday morning. "It's a battle the authorities are never going to win," say protestors.
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File sharing site reopens
Smörgåsbord: 3 Jun 06
File sharing site The Pirate Bay, which was closed down following Wednesday's raid by the Swedish police, opened again on Saturday morning under a different name: The Police Bay.
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"US government behind Pirate Bay raid"
National: 2 Jun 06
SEE ALSO: Raid on The Pirate Bay hits other sites
Reports that the US government was behind the action against the Sweden-based file sharing site have resulted in the Swedish government being reported to the country's Constitutional Committee.
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Police close file sharing site
National: 31 May 06
Police have closed The Pirate Bay, a file sharing website and one of the largest sites of its kind in the world. Servers were confiscated and three people questioned.
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Hunt for private file sharers is over - prosecutor
National: 5 Apr 06
A Swedish appeal court decides not to hear the case against a man who illegally shared a film via the internet. The prosecutor said that the decision effectively puts an end to the hunt for individual file sharers in Sweden.
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Swedes face massive fines for sharing songs online
National: 15 Nov 05
SEE ALSO: Study reveals "typical Swedish file sharer"
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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Sollentuna man fined for file sharing
National: 9 Nov 05
In an almost identical case to the one in Västerås a couple of weeks ago, a 27 year old man has been fined for making the film "The third wave" available on the internet.
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Swedish music industry joins file sharing battle
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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Anti-piracy group broke Swedish data laws
National: 10 Jun 05
To the amusement of file-sharers everywhere, Sweden's anti-piracy group is found to have broken the country's personal data act. But they won't have long to savour the irony - now the group is applying for an exemption from the act.
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200 Swedish file-sharers reported to the police
National: 4 Jun 05
Sweden's file-sharing war gets nastier. The country's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån, starts reporting suspects directly to the police without warning - and a file sharing site relaunches with faster technology and in ten languages.
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Swedish anti-piracy enemies "bury the hatchet"
National: 4 Apr 05
The public feud between Sweden's anti-piracy group, Antipiratbyrån, and internet service provider Bahnhof has fizzled out after both organisations agreed to stop hassling each other. But smaller internet companies say it's impossible for them to check everything on their servers.
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First Swede prosecuted for sharing files on net
National: 24 Mar 05
A 27-year old man who allowed Internet users to download a film stored on his computer has become the first Swede to be charged with illegal file sharing. But prosecutors say that anything less than a prison sentence would make future prosecutions unlikely.
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Sweden to introduce tougher download laws
National: 17 Mar 05
Sweden's justice minister Thomas Bodström proposes tighter laws to protect copyright owners but says that "teenagers downloading at home" are not the main target". Meanwhile, the controversial Anti-piracy office is reported to the authorities by more people than it is catching.
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Swedish anti-piracy web site hacked after ISP raid
National: 14 Mar 05
The fight between "anti-piracy" organisations and those who advocate free sharing of music and film files comes to Sweden, and it's getting dirty, with paid informers, dawn raids, hacked web sites and death threats.
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Bad Company 2 sells 2.3 million »
"Stockholm based EA DICE have announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2, released earlier this month has sold-through 2.3 million copies (according to internal data) so far across three platforms in Europe and North America. It is on track to becoming the best selling release of March." READ »
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