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Supreme Court denies Pirate Bay right to appeal

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. READ »

File-sharing recognized as a religion in Sweden

Science & Technology: 5 Jan 12
Zealous file-sharing enthusiasts in Sweden can now take their beliefs to the next level and join the Church of Kopimism, as the widespread practice has now officially been recognized as a religion. READ »

Falkvinge named in 2011 'Global Thinkers' list

Society: 29 Nov 11
Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge has been named among the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" alongside a number of Arab revolutionaries and the likes of Barack Obama, Ai WeiWei, and Mark Zuckerberg. READ »

Police child porn sting snags twelve Swedes

National: 19 Oct 11
Twelwe people were arrested in Sweden early on Wednesday morning suspected of spreading child pornography, according to the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation. READ »

Swedish Pirates salute German success

Politics: 19 Sep 11
Sweden's Pirate Party has lauded the electoral success of its German sister party in the Berlin state parliament, calling it as a "major step forward" and a boost for the movement across the world. READ »

Swedish PM's son to flip burgers at McDonald's

Business & Money: 3 Aug 11
Gustaf Reinfeldt, the 18-year-old son of the Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, has secured a job at US hamburger chain McDonald's, using his Twitter feed to invite friends in for a grilled patty. READ »

Filesharing no act of worship: agency

Society: 7 Jul 11
Copying, remixing and spreading information cannot be considered an act of worship, even if participants fall into a meditative trance during the act, ruled Swedish authorities, thus rejecting The Missionary Church of Kopimism as a religious faith. READ »

Pirate Bay signs up to file sharing research study

Science & Technology: 18 Apr 11
Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay has agreed to participate with researchers at Lund University in a major survey of the habits and norms of those using the popular website. READ »

Pirate Party losing wind as membership drops

Politics: 28 Feb 11
Sweden's Pirate Party membership has taken a sharp downward turn, but new party leader Anna Troberg is not concerned. READ »

Pirate Bay co-founder banned from running site

Business & Money: 26 Jul 10
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has been banned by Stockholm district court from continuing to run the filesharing site. READ »

US film giants appeal in file-sharing case

National: 6 Jan 10
In a corporate David and Goliath-style case, a Stockholm-based internet operator is fighting a file-sharing lawsuit against a collective of large US film companies. READ »

'Vaginal corona' makes 2009 word list

National: 31 Dec 09
The Swedish Language Council has added slidkrans (vaginal corona) to its list of official Swedish words following successful lobbying by a sexual rights group. In total, the council added 30 new words to its linguistic roster. READ »

File sharing in Sweden nears record high

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. READ »

Telia forced to reveal file-sharing customer

Business & Money: 4 Dec 09
TeliaSonera has been forced to spill the beans on the identity of a customer, believed to be behind a file-sharing site, after losing a court case in the District Court. READ »

Left coalition partners in show of conference unity

Politics: 1 Nov 09
The Social Democrats welcomed their centre-left coalition partners, the Green and Left parties, to their ongoing conference on Sunday - the first time outside parties have taken part. READ »

Google admits mistake in blocking Pirate Bay

Science & Technology: 4 Oct 09
US search engine giant Google has admitted that an internal error was behind the blocking of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay on Friday. READ »

Pirate Bay buyer faces criminal investigation

Business & Money: 24 Aug 09
Swedish police have launched an investigation into allegations of financial irregularities surrounding Global Gaming Factory X, the firm planning to purchase file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. READ »

Pirate Bay buyer suffers new setback

Business & Money: 24 Aug 09
New question marks have been raised over Global Gaming Factory X (GGF), the company that plans to purchase Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, after the resignation of its chairman. READ »

What's on in Sweden: August 21 - 27

Lifestyle: 20 Aug 09
What's on in Sweden: Cirkus Cirkör and "progg" poster exhibition in Stockholm; Midnight run and Stephen Lynch (US) in Gothenburg; Orquesta Faela and music festival in Malmö. READ »

'Spotify earns us more than iTunes': Sony BMG

Business & Money: 11 Aug 09
Swedish digital streaming music service Spotify is proving to be the saviour of the music industry after years of falling sales. Music company Sony BMG Sweden confirms that revenues from Spotify now outstrip iTunes. READ »

Pirate Bay to seek Dutch retrial

National: 10 Aug 09
The operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay are to launch a legal challenge to a Dutch court order temporarily banning the site's activities. READ »

Music body cautions Pirate Bay suitor

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. READ »

Swedish anti-piracy law keeps downloaders on the defensive

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. READ »

Pirate Bay purchase 'on schedule': buyer

Science & Technology: 30 Jul 09
The board of Global Gaming Factory X have confirmed that the purchase of Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay will be completed as planned on August 27th. READ »

Pirate Bay facing new suit from US film giants

Science & Technology: 28 Jul 09
Disney, Universal, Warner Bros and Colombia Pictures are among more than ten major film companies suing for the closure of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay in Stockholm District Court. READ »

Swedish Donald Duck wades into pirates' waters

Society: 27 Jul 09
The Swedish publishers of Kalle & Anka & Co, a comic featuring the Disney character Donald Duck, have expressed regret over an edition featuring the loveable children's character engaging in internet 'piracy'. READ »

Pirate Bay-trio to sue Dutch copyright group

Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
The three men behind The Pirate Bay file sharing site are filing a defamation lawsuit in Swedish court against a Dutch anti-piracy organization. READ »

Pirate Bay trial sparks legal ethics debate

Science & Technology: 29 Jun 09
Sweden needs to adopt stricter ethical guidelines for judges following accusations of judicial bias in the Pirate Bay trial, according to legal professionals. READ »

Polling stations open doors for EU vote

Politics: 7 Jun 09
Polling stations across Sweden opened their doors at 8am on Sunday for voting in the EU parliamentary elections. The parties of discontent continue to ride high in the polls as private funding becomes a late election issue. READ »

Pirate Party Sweden's third-largest: poll

Politics: 22 May 09
Sweden’s Pirate Party has climbed into third place among parties running for the European Parliament elections, according to a new opinion poll released Thursday. READ »

Opposition makes comeback in new poll

Politics: 17 May 09
The opposition has increased its lead over Sweden's Alliance government according to a new opinion poll by Sifo. READ »

Young people hazy about EU elections

National: 9 May 09
According to an opinion survey conducted by Novus Opinion, almost half of Sweden’s young people aged between 18 and 28 do not know that elections to the European Parliament are to be held this year. READ »

Record month for The Local

National: 7 May 09
The Local has recorded its most successful month ever with over 1.1 million visitors in April across its sites in Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. READ »

Lundström demands Pirate Bay retrial

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. READ »

Publishers begin hunt for Swedish file sharers

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. READ »

Pirate Bay chiefs deny illegal downloading

National: 16 Feb 09
Four people who run one of the world's leading file-sharing websites denied any wrongdoing as they went on trial in Stockholm on Monday for facilitating illegal downloads of copyrighted material. READ »

Profiles: The Pirate Bay Four

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 09
Profiles of the four Pirate Bay defendants READ »

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. READ »

2008: The year in review

Lifestyle: 31 Dec 08
As 2008 draws to a close, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention over the last twelve months. READ »

Fanni Risberg – In transit on England's south coast

Lifestyle: 22 Dec 08
Swedish singer-songwriter and actress Fanni Risberg takes time out from recording her debut album to talk to Peter Vinthagen Simpson about celebrity, female solidarity and the importance of making choices. READ »

‘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. READ »

Stockholm club and concert guide: August 7 - 9

Lifestyle: 14 Aug 08
Stockholm club and concert tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Piracy site takes on academic publishers

Education: 28 Mar 08
A new student literature piracy portal was launched this week. Student Bay is challenging academic publishing in the same way that The Pirate Bay took on the music industry. READ »

EU to adopt Nordic method of fighting web-based child porn

National: 11 Feb 08
The method involves cooperation between police, internet service providers, and anti-child porn groups. READ »

Music industry: 'Make file sharing legal'

Science & Technology: 8 Feb 08
Sweden's largest music rights organization has put forward a proposal to make file-sharing legal. READ »

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. READ »

Prosecutor sets stage for Pirate Bay trial

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. READ »

Swedish agency continues clampdown on illegal file-sharing

National: 27 Jan 08
The Anti-Piracy Agency (APB) shut down several file-sharing groups last week. READ »

Retrial declared in Sweden’s largest file-sharing case

National: 8 Jan 08
The case is to be retried after the prosecutor dropped two counts filed against a 31-year old Linköping man. READ »

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. READ »

Prince to sue The Pirate Bay

Science & Technology: 12 Nov 07
Pop star Prince is planning to sue file-sharing website The Pirate Bay for copyright and trademark infringement. The veteran musician is currently in the process of filing lawsuits in the United States and Sweden. READ »

Pirates take over arch-enemy's website

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. READ »

Bureaucrats slam proposed piracy law

Science & Technology: 4 Oct 07
The Swedish Data Inspection Board has given the thumbs down to government proposals to crack down on internet piracy. READ »

Internet pirates report entertainment giants to police

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 07
The Pirate Bay has reported a number of major players in the film and music industries to the police following suspicions that the companies hired hackers to undermine the file-sharing site. READ »

File-sharing battle reaches internet providers

Science & Technology: 3 Sep 07
Internet service providers (ISPs) may soon be required by Swedish law to take greater responsibility for unlawful file-sharing. Providers should be forced "to contribute to bringing all copyright infringement to an end", according to an official inquiry. READ »

EU court 'could scupper Swedish piracy law'

National: 22 Aug 07
The European Court could put a stop to Swedish plans to crack down on internet piracy, according to reports. But the government insists that its proposals are compatible with EU law. READ »

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. READ »

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. READ »

Prosecutor to press charges against Pirate Bay

National: 4 May 07
Individuals connected with the Pirate Bay will face charges following a raid on the file-sharing site last year, a prosecutor has said. A spokesman for the Pirate Bay told The Local that they are not unduly concerned. READ »

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. READ »

Pirate Bay ditches bid for own nation

Science & Technology: 22 Feb 07
Following its failed attempt to buy a North Sea naval platform, The Pirate Bay is now setting its sights elsewhere. But any eventual purchase will be purely symbolic, as the people behind the file-sharing website are determined to remain in Stockholm. READ »

Sweden to ban website attacks

Science & Technology: 19 Feb 07
Disabling websites through automatically calling up the same page thousands of times – so called denial of service attacks – is to be made illegal under new plans by Sweden's government. READ »

File sharers reported to police

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. READ »

Wal-Mart docks in Pirate Bay

National: 16 Jan 07
Shiver me timbers! The biggest retailer in the world teams up with Swedish pirates in a bid to make more doubloons and pieces of eight from Christmas DVD sales. READ »

The Pirate Bay plans to buy island

Science & Technology: 12 Jan 07
Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay has launched plans to buy an independent 'nation' on a former British naval platform. The site owners hope being based on Sealand will help get round copyright laws. READ »

File sharing still popular in Sweden

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 06
One in five Swedish Internet users has used a peer-to-peer file sharing programme at some point, according to new official figures. Young men are the keenest downloaders. READ »

Two Swedes fined for file sharing

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. READ »

File sharer: my computer was hit by lightning

National: 4 Oct 06
A local official in Karlskrona who admitted illegally downloading music from the Internet has been spared a trial after his computer was destroyed by a lightning strike. READ »

Appeal court clears man of file sharing

National: 2 Oct 06
The first Swede to be convicted of illegal file sharing has been cleared by an appeal court in Stockholm. It is difficult to predict the consequences of this ruling, says the prosecutor. READ »

Pirate bay ads could lead to clampdown

Business & Money: 5 Jul 06
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is facing an investigation into its business after it was alleged that it makes hundreds of thousands of kronor a month from ad sales. The owners had previously claimed the site was a hobby. READ »

Swede offers "insurance for web pirates"

National: 4 Jul 06
People sharing music and videos online in Sweden can now insure against getting fined by the courts. The founder of the company offering the insurance insists he's not doing anything illegal. READ »

Court refuses to return servers

National: 28 Jun 06
Servers siezed in raids against The Pirate Bay will not yet be returned to the company that owns them, a court in Stockholm has ruled. READ »

Maritime office sets sights on Pirate Bay

National: 22 Jun 06
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Sweden's Maritime Administration says navigation software worth 2.5 million kronor has been illegally downloaded via controversial file sharing site The Pirate Bay. READ »

Bodström welcomes interference probe

Politics: 21 Jun 06
Sweden's justice minister, Thomas Bodström, has said he would welcome a parliamentary inquiry into accusations that he tried to assert improper influence over the Pirate Bay investigation. READ »

US threatened Sweden with sanctions over piracy

Society: 21 Jun 06
The American government warned Sweden that it would face tough sanctions at the World Trade Organization if it did not crack down on internet piracy, it has emerged. READ »

File-sharing police 'need better training'

Society: 16 Jun 06
Swedish police and prosecutors dealing with file sharing cases should get a crash course in how to deal with the problem better, according to new proposals. READ »

Companies sue Sweden over Pirate Bay raid

National: 14 Jun 06
Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police's raids against The Pirate Bay plan on Wednesday to deliver a demand for compensation from the Swedish state. READ »

Sweden could scrap file-sharing ban

Politics: 9 Jun 06
Sweden's justice minister Thomas Bodström has said he might consider a charge on broadband subscriptions to compensate music and film companies for downloading. READ »

Young voters back file sharing

National: 8 Jun 06
The majority of young people who will be allowed to vote for the first time this September during national elections are in favour of file downloading - despite the fact that it is illegal. READ »

New conviction for file-sharing

National: 7 Jun 06
A man who shared a film on the Internet has been convicted of breaking copyright laws by a Gothenburg court, in the third conviction of its kind in Sweden. READ »

"Pirate Party" targets Swedish election

Politics: 3 Jan 06
A new political party focused on making copyrighted material free for all is planning to run in Sweden's next general election. "We are not red, blue or green. We are just pirates," says leader Rickard Falkvinge. READ »

Green light to chase file-sharers

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. READ »

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. READ »

Illegal downloaders to face damages claims

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. READ »

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. READ »

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. READ »

Anti-piracy office accused of piracy

National: 23 Mar 05
An anti-piracy office infiltrator who exposed thousands of illegally downloaded films and games at internet company Bahnhof appears to be one of the main culprits. "We have evidence," says Jon Karlung, MD of Bahnhof. READ »

Swedish music sales plummet

Lifestyle: 7 Mar 05
The sale of CDs and music in Sweden slumps for the third year running. 2004's sales were down by a massive 17% on the year before as the Swedish media focuses on film and reality TV celebrities. READ »

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