Record-Breaking File-Sharing Case Gets Underway in Sweden
Record-Breaking File-Sharing Case Gets Underway in Sweden
Posted 10/17/2011 at 1:43pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Sweden is no stranger to file sharing cases, but a case that has just gotten underway in the country is a real outlier. A Swedish woman, aged 58, is accused of sharing over 45,000 music tracks online. The staggering scale of this case has the prosecution talking about a possible jail sentence.
Interestingly, this case does not revolve around torrents, as most now do. Rather, the accused infringement occurred in 2007, when the defendant is alleged to have used a Direct Connect (DC) client to connect to a sharing hub. As the case began, the woman admitted that she had downloaded some tracks in the past, and the defence didn’t even really object to the 45,000 track number, which seems like an error in judgement.
The prosecutino may only have proof of 50 or so infringements, but log files from a search of the woman's PC could be enough to get to that 45,000 number. The case will likely hinge on whether or not the woman knew that the tracks were being shared. TorrentFreak suggests that given the advanced age of the judges, the outlook is not good. A verdict is expected in two weeks.
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Holly Golightly
October 17, 2011 at 9:09pm
Why wont the gpvernment simply outlaw file sharing sites all together then? It seems rather impractical to just go after one person and expect them to be fully capable of paying the fine ordered. Greed is wrong. There is a reason why people are downloading for free. Paying for everything has become outdated. It seems rather impossible to even download such many songs. Heck, I have not gone beyond 200 songs on my Zune HD. So to listen to 45,000 songs. Each are on average of 3 minutes... I do not know. I mean, that is over 2,000 hours of songs. At some point you are going to get bored. I do not even think it is possible of going half a year, listening to songs back to back. I think the 58 year old woman is afriad and will accept being accused. But yes, music, movies, and video games should be for free. Without any DRM at all what so ever.
HiGHRoLLeR038
October 18, 2011 at 8:50am
It would be against the constitution to block file sharing sites altogether. Sites like piratebay and demonoid share legitimate material, freeware, open source stuff, as well as copyright materials like movies/games.
Holly Golightly
October 18, 2011 at 9:53am
If it is constitutional to post copy-written content on the internet for others to download for free... Then why is this 58 year old woman being criminalized for it? Clearly something went wrong here. Greed often distorts what can, and can not be allowed. Until this will be resolved, there is going to be a lot of distortion in the courtrooms. Of course, there is something wrong in this kind of picture.
Adam Wolfe
October 18, 2011 at 11:46am
Constitutional rights don't mean you can go around breaking the law. That's why.
Holly Golightly
October 18, 2011 at 8:55pm
If it is unconstitutional to download off from torrents, then perhaps the government should target the corrupt sites that break the law and not charge their own citizens as if they are crimminals. You know, some people do not know downloading music from a torrent is illegal. Afterall, it is not a crime to share your stuff with other people... That is just the bad part of free markets.
Peanut Fox
October 18, 2011 at 7:53am
You should make us some free games to play. I'd be interested to see what you come up with.
Holly Golightly
October 18, 2011 at 9:49am
I would love to make videogames. I just do not have the software talent to create a game. I am in college now, and I do not think my school as videogame-creating class. Although, I suppose I could always look in at it. It really depends I guess...
tornato7
October 17, 2011 at 3:09pm
We order you to pay $67,000 per song, just like the case in america. You now owe us 3 billion dollars.
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