Los Angeles - Sweden's file-sharing-friendly Pirate Party is partnering on the launch of a new ISP in the country, which promises to offer anonymity to file-swappers while financially supporting the Party, TorrentFreak reported.read more

Los Angeles - Swedish police last week conducted raids and arrested three individuals alleged to be involved with "Darkside," a group of servers said to house 130 terabytes of copyrighted movies being distributed without permission, TorrentFreak reports. Local anti-piracy group Antipiratbyran called the raids on server locations the biggest to date in Sweden, and possibly in Europe. read more

Stockholm, Sweden - Marking "the end of an era," the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay on Tuesday shut down their BitTorrent tracker, which grew over six years to become the largest hub for finding copyrighted materials for download in the world, TorrentFreak reported. "Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date," the Pirate Bay wrote on its blog. "We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well."read more

Stockholm, Sweden - The appeal of the copyright infringement convictions of the four operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay has been delayed, likely until at least next summer, as questions over potential conflicts of interest of several judges assigned to hear the appeal are considered, TorrentFreak reported.read more

Stockholm, Sweden - International record label trade group IFPI is observing enforcement actions taken by the publishing industry under Sweden's new IPRED anti-piracy law before it launches its own crackdown on file-swappers, TorrentFreak reported. Six months after the IPRED law was enacted -- which compels service providers to identify suspected file-swappers -- no litigation has been launched in the country by the recording industry. In April, on the first day the new law was in effect, file-sharing in Sweden saw a precipitous drop in traffic. read more