Latest developments from Sweden, June 5.
Cultural Chief confesses filesharing publicly, defying the new copyright law
Swedish TV
reports that the Cultural Chief of
Karlskrona, a city of 61,000 people in southern Sweden, reports himself voluntarily to the police, confessing publicly that he downloads music from the Internet. He says he started filesharing as a protest against the new stricter copyright law in Sweden, to come into effect 1. of July. He emphasizes that he is filesharing only from his home, not from workplace. "I'm doing it just as a private person. Internet is the world's best music library." According to the new law he risks a two year jail sentence.
Swedish Security police to investigate Government website crashdown
Dagens Nyheter
reports that the Swedish Security Police will make a criminal inquiry regarding the recent crashdown of
Swedish Government's website. The police is already busy investigating the crashdown of its
own webpages, back online after a two day's downtime due to DDoS attacks.
Digged! Pirate Captain's speech gets international attention
P2P Consortium, a 'roof' website linking numerous p2p communities together, gets to taste the dreaded Digg Effect as the English version of Rickard Falkvinge's (Swedish Pirate Party leader) inspired speech from the Stockholm demonstration found its way to
Digg's front page in less than a day from its posting. Digg comments available
here. The speech has also started to spread as copies in Blogosphere. The voice of Pirate Captain will be heard by an international audience of tens of thousands!