https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedes aren't downloading movies and music as much as before with more people preferring to pay upfront for legal services such as Netflix. https://www.thelocal.se/20140603/illegal-file-sharing-on-the-wane-in-sweden Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:19:00 +0200 illegal-file-sharing-on-the-wane-in-sweden Swedes have become more inclined to surf the internet anonymously, in order to protect themselves from online surveillance, a new study shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20120501/40572 Tue, 01 May 2012 17:05:00 +0200 40572 Swedish researchers have described comments by an official from the European Court of Justice on Thursday as being positive for file-sharers, while others have claimed that they give support to intellectual property rights legislation. https://www.thelocal.se/20111117/37412 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:25:00 +0100 37412 The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. https://www.thelocal.se/20100916/29054 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:36:00 +0200 29054 Swedish broadband operator Comhem wants a district court to seek the advice of the EU Court of Justice over an anti-file sharing law (Ipred) case, after the Supreme Court indicated that a test case was destined for Luxembourg. https://www.thelocal.se/20100630/27532 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:22:00 +0200 27532 The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 looks destined for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. https://www.thelocal.se/20100604/27036 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:55:00 +0200 27036 Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. https://www.thelocal.se/20100521/26768 Fri, 21 May 2010 09:53:00 +0200 26768 Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera has been instructed by the appeals court to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website in a landmark anti-piracy law ruling. https://www.thelocal.se/20100518/26698 Tue, 18 May 2010 08:10:00 +0200 26698 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20090803/21078 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:08:00 +0200 21078 In the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law in April, an ISP has been told by a Swedish court it must hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. https://www.thelocal.se/20090625/20274 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:23:00 +0200 20274 The Swedish government has indicated it plans to move forward with a controversial anti-file sharing law but that the proposal will be altered in an attempt to appease some of the measure’s many critics. https://www.thelocal.se/20081121/15844 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:40:00 +0100 15844 A proposed measure to combat illegal file sharing may subject Sweden’s government to a storm of protests similar to the one generated by the signals intelligence law earlier this year. https://www.thelocal.se/20081107/15536 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:35:00 +0100 15536