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The ever-increasing uptake of the use of social media such as blogs, Facebook and similar services has naturally attracted the attention of Swedish public sector institutions
Following the criminal conviction of the Pirate Bay defendants in April, rights-owners have been pursuing civil cases, including against ISPs, in an attempt to close down the Pirate Bay site
As has been extensively reported, four representatives of ‘Pirate Bay’, a Swedish file sharing site (reports vary as to where it is actually based), were found guilty of contributory copyright infringement on 17 April 2009 by the Stockholm District Court
Following the Swedish implementation in April of the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, the Solna District Court issued Sweden’s first order requiring an ISP to disclose the identity of the user behind an IP address alleged to have been used for activities infringing copyright
