Sweden bans downloads of copyrighted content
05:25 - Sunday 29 May 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: sweden, bans, downloads, of, copyrighted, content Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: sweden, bans, downloads, of, copyrighted, content Category : Miscellaneous
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.
Read the complete story . (P2P.net)
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