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+ - Swedish Court says : IP numbers privacy protected-> 0

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on Thursday June 18, 2009 @07:24AM

oh2 writes "The highest applicable Swedish court, Regeringsrätten, has ruled that IP numbers are protected since they can be traced to individuals. This means that only government agencies are allowed to track and store IP adresses, leaving "anti-piracy" advocates with no legal way to find possible copyright infringers. More in swedish here : http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/ipredlagen-satt-ur-spel-1.894292"
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+ - Witness, expert and plaintiff all at once 0

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on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @12:29PM

oh2 writes "A swedish prosecutor has allowed the plaintiffs in a filesharing case to act as experts and to examine harddrives seized as evidence by the police according to Dagens Nyheter. Antipiratbyrån is an organization funded by the BSA, IFPI and a long list of movie and music industry companies.

The prosecutor in question, Britt-Louise Viklund, sees no problem with using IFPI and Antipiratbyrån as experts. "They are the experts on whats copyrighted and if the material on the harddrives is of the type they have the rights to. Its not so easy for me to know that."
When asked if this wasnt a matter for the police rather than the plaintiffs she responded "Yes, but the police have looked at it as well. I thought that Antipiratbyrån was the best people to determine what was legal or not, one of their investigators will be heard at the trial as a witness."

(Translations from the article by me.)"