February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Antipiratbyrån":
Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
The Swedish Supreme Court will not grant the right to appeal in the Pirate Bay case, the court announced on Wednesday, marking the end of the four defendants' legal battle in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 11
A well-known Swedish filesharing site has been shuttered following the arrest of a man who has since confessed to uploading more than 1,000 films to the network affiliated with the site.
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Science & Technology: 28 Sep 10
While devoid of any high-charged drama, the opening day of the Pirate Bay appeals court trial nevertheless included a few unexpected developments.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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