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Comment Legal system hijacked by media industry (Score 4, Informative) 234

by digithed on Friday November 26, 2010 @02:55PM (#34351720) Attached to: Pirate Bay Trio Lose Appeal

It's pretty plain to see that the Swedish legal system has been hijacked by the media industry.

Typical fines dished out recently by the courts in Sweden...
Murder: 75000kr (£6825)
Rape of a 14 year old girl: 50000kr (£4550)
Pirate Bay fine for aiding Copyright infringment: 46000000kr (£4.1 million)

I'm not saying that they haven't done anything wrong (although if they have done something wrong then it's hard to understand why Google haven't been indicted as their index contains many, many more links to torrent files than the Pirate Bay's does), but lets get this in perspective. The fine is outrageous and has absolutely no basis in reality. Another thing to mention is that this is not the end of the road. The Pirate Bays guys have already said they will appeal this ruling. There is one higher court in Sweden to appeal to and they have already said they will appeal to the European Court in Brussels if necessary.

Comment Now in English... (Score 1) 1

by digithed on Monday December 14, 2009 @08:18AM (#30429760) Attached to: Telia launches 4G network in Stockholm/Oslo

There's an English article up at The Local now... TeliaSonera launches 4G mobile broadband in Stockholm.

Submission + - IPRED law in Sweden - Watching the watchers

Submitted by digithed on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @04:10PM

digithed writes: In response to Sweden's recent introduction of new laws implementating the European IPRED directive a new Swedish website has been launched allowing users to check if their IP address is currently under investigation. The site also allows users to subscribe for email updates telling them if their IP address comes under investigation in the future, or to report IP addresses known to be under investigation. The site can be found at: http://ipred.bitchware.se/

This is an interesting use of people power "watching the watchers". The new Swedish laws implementing the IPRED directive require a public request to the courts in order to get ISPs to forcibly disclose potentially sensitive private information, and since all court records are public in Sweden (as are all government records) it will be easy to compile a list of IP addresses which are currently being investigated.

The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, 2008 @11:11PM from the hindsight-is-much-better-than-20/20 dept.

coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best, slightly off-center stories of 2008."

Comment Why is it allowed to publish the names of accused? (Score 1) 219

by digithed on Monday August 25, 2008 @10:17AM (#24736491) Attached to: NZ Judge Bans Online Publishing of Accuseds' Names

I've never understood why it is allowed to publish the names of the accused in the first place, until it is established if they are guilty or innocent.

In the U.K. (my homeland) as in many countries in the world the press are allowed to report the names of those accused but not charged with a crime. In Sweden (the country where am I living right now) this is not allowed, which means that when the press report on high profile cases going through the courts they generally make up their own "nicknames" for the accused. Right now they are reporting on the "Arboga Murderer" and a couple of years ago in a famous case here in Sweden involving a murder by members of a religious sect there was a female accused that the press called "The Bride of Christ". The press are only allowed to publish the names if the accused are found guilty, otherwise they slip back into the anonimity they had before the whole court case started.

I think this is a better system but obviously there are differing views.

I'm interested to know, why do you think it's important for the press to be allowed to publish the names of people accused of crimes before they have been found innocent or guilty?

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