Sweden to crack down on piracy
Swedish courts will soon be able to force the country’s Internet providers to produce information on suspected file-sharers in a move to crackdown on piracy, the culture and justice ministers said Friday.
File-sharing can be traced by tracking the IP addresses of the computers that download or distribute a file.
Sweden is home to file sharer The Pirates Bay:
Sweden has long been criticized as a safe haven for online piracy because the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is based there.
The site is used by an estimated 10 million to 15 million users worldwide to share videos, music and other copyright-protected material.
