Yesterday the Lower Court of Borås, Sweden fined a filesharer something like 2.500 euros for sharing a total of FOUR (4) songs on a P2P network. What was the honourable Court thinking? I don´t know much about Swedish criminal law, but I assume that if the guy had stolen a CD with twice as many songs from the store his punishment would have been much less severe.
The message is clear: Sharing files is not stealing, it is much worse. A “computer crime” no less…
