By Jan Libbenga for The Register.
This story has been reproduced with permission.
A 44-year-old man from Borås who was prosecuted for making four
recordings available of Roxette, Eurythmics, Mauro Scocco and Jakob
Hellman, is the first person to be fined in Sweden for sharing
music online. A second 32-year-old man from Norrköping has been
convicted of making Swedish film Rånarna available online.
The Swedish
pro file sharing movement had hoped the judges would look at a
similar case in Västerås a few months ago, where the Swedish Court
of Appeal decided there was insufficient evidence in a case of a
29-year-old Swedish man suspected of uploading a movie. The only
evidence was that his ISP confirmed the IP address belonged to the
Västerås man. The Västerås court argued that house searches were
needed to prove that file sharing had been carried out from a
particular PC.
The Norrköping court now says there should not be a higher
burden of proof in file sharing cases.
© The Register
2006
