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Swedish ISP Fights New Piracy Law
Won't hand over IP addresses in compliance with IPRED
by Karl Bode Thursday 16-Jul-2009 tags: legal · Fileswapping · business · world
Sweden's new Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) anti-piracy law gives copyright holders in Sweden the ability to force ISPs in the country to hand over the names and addresses of users who transmit pirated material. Except Swedish broadband ISPs Bahnhof and All Tele started deleting consumer IP data, rendering the law somewhat useless. After posting a consumer survey, Swedish ISP Ephone is listening to their customers, and appealing a court order demanding they hand over the IP addresses of P2P users. Ephone was the first Swedish ISP taken to court under the new IPRED law, and faces fines of 750,000 kronor ($95,000) for not complying.

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DrModem
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At least there are some countries

Where the ISPs aren't in bed with the government.

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Re: At least there are some countries

said by DrModem:

Where the ISPs aren't in bed with the government.
Some still exist here too.
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So what's next ?

The case is appealed and the appellate court upholds the fines. Does the ISP keep paying fines in any new lawsuits? Probably wouldn't do that for long.

Or the ISP could start deleting IP records like other ISPs have(evidently legally due to a flaw in the law). But I suspect that loophole will be closed sooner rather than later.
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Re: So what's next ?

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. But I suspect that loophole will be closed sooner rather than later.
Exactly, that's what's next. The law will be fixed, and ISPs will be required to retain customer data for a certain period of time (probably a year) to facilitate IPRED investigations.

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Sounds like a chicken/egg situation

How do they know what's "pirated" if it hasn't gone to court yet? Guilty on their say so?
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