Swedish File-Sharer Arrested for Sharing 12,000 Tracks
The increasing drastic attitude of Swedish authorities towards file sharers and file sharing sites has been covered by P2PON in a number of previous posts which seemed to have multiplied lately.
Fresh news bring to our attention another action of the Swedish police who arrested on Tuesday a man suspected of having infringed the copyright law. According to the police the 25 year-old shared 12,000 songs on p2p networks and after admitting the charge during questioning was released.
Apparently the police had received an information from a music group and conducted a raid in the Uppvidinge Municipality.
The raid comes shortly after IFPI requested the Stockholm District Court to compel an ISP to disclose the confidential data of another suspected large-scale file-sharer, confirmed to have made illegal content available via Direct Connect. This was the first time a group requested such an action under the IPRED which came into effect in April.
TorrentFreak made a distinguish between users BitTorrent users and those who use Direct Connect hubs in terms of the legal risk they expose themselves to: “While BitTorrent users may indeed be sharing many items at once, it’s not simply a case of browsing that user’s shared folder to see what else is on offer – BitTorrent has no ’shared-folder’-type setup.
Direct Connect, however, does have such a setup and its users are likely to share their whole music collections at once in an easily identifiable way. Although Direct Connect hubs are more difficult to access than a regular torrent site, once in, investigators find gathering evidence trivial if the sharers make no effort to mask their identities.”
Just yesterday we reported about another arrest case involving a man suspected of having made available a workprint of the movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” last spring.
(via TorrentFreak)
