OT: RIAA and Their Law Suits

[Ruatha]

Here in sweden it's still legal to download music from the net, to burn those on a cd and to give them to your friends, as long as there is no commercial gain.
But it's not legal to share the songs on the internet, to upload them to a server or by sharing them through p2p, only downloading and posession is legal.
There was some discussion about if this was legal or not some time ago so one of our ministers downloaded some songs, burned them to cd and gave to a friend and filed a report to the police about it, the prosecutors did an investigation and came to the conclusion that there was no law against it. (Not the same minister that was killed a week ago (Anna Lind) but another one (Margot Wallström)).

The same goes for movies but not for software, downloading software is illegal.

The law will propably change soon to include movies but music will propably not be included.

[ September 16, 2003, 20:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]