Court Forces ISP to Disclose File-Sharing Customer
Another day, another p2p related lawsuit in Sweden which has established itself over the last two years as one of the homelands for antipiracy battle and file sharing lawsuits. This time a Swedish court ruled that ISP TeliaSonera must give away the identity of a customer suspected of running file-sharing site Swetorrents.
The Swedish Internet service provider was threatened with a SEK 750,000 fine if it fails to comply with the court’s decision.
Annika Rygart, one of the judges involved the case said: “The District Court has assessed the conditions of this case and is satisfied that the film studios have the right to the user details of the holder of this particular IP address.”
Naturally, this kind of news is making the industry and the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office very happy: “They made the right decision,” commented Sara Lindbäck (lawyer at the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office).“The District Court conducted a very thorough review and the decision came from not one, but three judges,” she added.
The decision followed the court case that Telia lost to a consortium of film companies – Swedish Film Industry, Pan Vision, Filmlance International and Yellow Bird.
