Swedish ISP Fights New Piracy LawWon't hand over IP addresses in compliance with IPRED
12:28PM Thursday Jul 16 2009 by Karl Bodetags: legal · Fileswapping · business · worldSweden's new Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) anti-piracy law gives copyright holders in Sweden the ability to force ISPs in the country to hand over the names and addresses of users who transmit pirated material. Except Swedish broadband ISPs Bahnhof and All Tele started
deleting consumer IP data, rendering the law somewhat useless. After posting a consumer survey, Swedish ISP Ephone is listening to their customers, and
appealing a court order demanding they hand over the IP addresses of P2P users. Ephone was the first Swedish ISP taken to court under the new IPRED law, and faces fines of 750,000 kronor ($95,000) for not complying.