US threatened Sweden with sanctions over piracy

[Greek soldier]

US threatened Sweden with sanctions over piracy


The United States warned Sweden earlier this year that if the country did not act to stop illegal file sharing it would face tough sanctions from the World Trade Organization, a Swedish official said Tuesday.

A swirling controversy over the closure of the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay on May 31st left many wondering who was behind the raid. The American government and the powerful Motion Picture Association were responsible for urging police action, Swedish government officials have now admitted.

Continued: The Local (http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=4128&date=20060621&PHPSESSID=572f8fec77c35f2ae5974579f22a5db8)

p-) p-) p-) Beware of the Pirates!!

[Macs.]

The US telling other countries that they do something illegal, and that they should stop it ? :)

[Luno]

So no more IKEA furniture’s and Volvo cars to Usa if we didn’t shut down pirate bay :)

[Greek soldier]

And Carl Gustaf AT missiles p-)

And also, if such thing happens, is the Swedish government going to ban the agreement between SAAB Barracuda and US Army??

[Luno]

I don’t know aboute the AT-4 Usa do make them on license, but I am sure that they did force the government to close down the National Home Guard page today

dead :-(
http://www.hemvarnet.se

[vryhpyammoadded]

I hope Sweden doesn’t back down.

Arrr, arrr, avast ye lubbers…etc… p-)

[Nordmannen]

I hope Sweden doesn’t back down.


They already have.

[Bert]

Yeah, the raid on the pirate bay was actually pushed by the MPAA. And no, that's not a conspiracy theory, they say so themselves. The raid was done based on criminal complaints filed, complaints which should never have gone through as the Bay does not violate Swedish law.

[Luno]

Here is the letter from MPA in English
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/pirate_mpa.pdf

And the answer Justitiedepartementet. (Ministry of Justice) in English
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/61/24/40/pirate_justit.pdf

[annihilation]

So when did we become the instrument of fear for the RIAA and the MPAA? Let them fight there own battles. Amazing how we bug sweden over this but over look China.....

[Greek soldier]

So when did we become the instrument of fear for the RIAA and the MPAA? Let them fight there own battles. Amazing how we bug sweden over this but over look China.....

Shhhhhh, economic interests are above everything....

[Moose]

They will never be able to clamp down on piracy in Sweden. Even the police say that they do not have the resources or will to do it. And I don’t see how they are going to arrest and prosecute 1 500 000 Swedes. They will continue to do these symbolic operations and eventually take out a special tax so that you can download legally.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

The US telling other countries that they do something illegal, and that they should stop it ? :)

uh, yeah...since Al Gore invented teh Internet it belongs to us. All you Eurobioches better pay up or else.

[Greek soldier]

uh, yeah...since Al Gore invented teh Internet it belongs to us. All you Eurobioches better pay up or else.

Or else Sir Timothy Lee, teh inventor of WWW, will kick yo Yankee assp-)

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Or else Sir Timothy Lee, teh inventor of WWW, will kick yo Yankee assp-)

I scoff openly at your pointing, clicking and text based resource identification! Inside the jewel-encrusted vault at their mega-complex at the Earth's core, residing in a supercooled container made from the anodized skull fragments of Nobel laureates and serial killers, DARPA holds the recipe to make 1's and 0's in a bath of molten gold. Don't make them tear it up!

[Greek soldier]

You read a lot of comics don't you? :lol:

[VISTREL]

teh piratebay really made the news!

[Zarathustra]

Ah, it's illegal here to download files aswell but I'm doing this since 2003 and I still haven't been arrested.