Norway’s Education Minister: File Sharing Should Be Legal

While right across the yard the trial of the Swedish Pirate Bay further captures attention, Norway is struggling these days with some file sharing issues of its own. Allegedly, the IFPI has tried to force one of the country's main ISPs to block all access to aforementioned BitTorent tracker site (or be sued). Now lay back and enjoy this one: the Norwegian Minister of Education, Bard Vegar Solhjell, believes that non-commercial file sharing should be made legal, and the one in great need of adapting itself is the music industry:

"All previous technology advances have led to fears that the older format would die. But TV did not kill radio, the Web did not kill the book, and the download is not going to kill music. "How ‘bout that, you honorable French, Italian and Irish Ministers?

Solhjell further added that together with his party he’s currently engaged in finding the best way to make non-commercial file sharing pointing out that this can actually translate as a real advantage not only for consumers but for artists as well. That’s just one Minister to my liking!