Sweden could force Internet firms to name file sharers: report

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Sweden should require Internet providers to hand over information identifying people involved in illegal file sharing, two government ministers said in remarks published Friday.

The indentity of people who violate copyright laws through Internet file sharing should be revealed to the person whose intellectual property has been stolen "so that they themselves can do something about the violation," Justice Minister Beatrice Ask and Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth wrote in Svenska Dagbladet.

Swedish courts "should be able to force Internet providers to hand over ... information about who has a certain IP address that has been used for an Internet violation," they said.

This would allow copyright-holders to demand that the illegal...