Courts Make Identifying Pirates Easier

[HardOCP News]

With all the recent arrests, the massive amounts of jail time being handed out, and court rulings like this, you'd think pirates would get the message.

A pair of decisions by the Swedish Supreme Court means that it will now become somewhat easier for rightsholders to identify file-sharers. The cases, which involve the identities of the administrator of a BitTorrent tracker and an alleged book pirate, have been dragging on since 2009. They have both now ended with the Supreme Court ruling that two ISPs will have to hand over identifying information under Sweden’s IPRED legislation.

 

[TronixA]

And the message is...always use a non-US based VPN or Newsgroups.

 

[Blown Cap]

You'd think the eye patch, parrot, peg leg and hook for a hand would be obvious enough...

 

[c3141hf]

And the message is...always use a non-US based VPN or Newsgroups.

When did the US annex Sweden?

 

[Disposed]

And the message is...always use a non-US based VPN or Newsgroups.

Good luck with that.

 

[Jadawin]

When did the US annex Sweden?

I think that was when Sweden filed that arrest warrant for Assange

 

[Serpent]

It just comes down to how it's helping either party....

The courts is helping those who lose their checks in their mailbox, and the pirates ...... well they're getting something they don't have to pay for.