I remember discussing the p2p-political developments with Jack maybe a year ago or so. Already at that time it looked like Sweden might be the breakthrough country where the p2p issue would first get truly political and the democratic forces could start to have an effect. For a little while France seemed to take the lead as a group of rebellious French parliament members voted through a law that would have effectively legalized personal filesharing but unfortunately the vested interests managed to intervene and water down the French law.
It takes only one advanced industrial country that officially legalizes p2p or at least makes it non-punishable to make a big difference on how things will evolve on the global scale... and right now Sweden seems to be on a steady course towards that status.
- tg
