The MPAA and RIAA claim file sharing is "devastating" their owners’ businesses, citing Sweden as a country where uploading and downloading from p2p networks is "rampant".

Thus, after winning over the hearts and minds of the Swedish government, the entertainment cartels were among the first to know that as of July 1, a law banning the sharing of copyrighted material on the Internet "without payment of royalties" will go into effect.

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