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Old 12-01-2006, 03:40 PM   #8
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you have to understand the swedish mentality and political debate on this issue, to understand why this party was formed.

There are the Anti-Piracy-agency, who track down filesharers and file complains against them, on behalf of the industry.. nothing special about that... but THEN.. we have the piracy-agency, who file complains against the anit-priracy-organication for illigal use of tracking, integrety and every other way they can, and belive it or not, they DID put the tracking to a full halt after they won a major case against the anti-piracy-lobby.
The piracy-lobby is quite strong, and swedish laws gives some slack to it.
We'r allowed to take copies for personal use AND copy a music CD for close friends and rellatives... So that's basicly how the origin of the "problem" stands now.

Theire goal is ofc to get seats in the parlament, but more realisticly, it's to get the debate going, and get the major parties to discuss this and listen to the public.
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