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Swedish Party Now Embraces File-Sharing for Personal Use

By soulxtc

The Left Party's governing board approves a motion that would allow people to upload and share copyrighted material online so long as it is not for commercial purposes. Sweden continues to be a bastion of tolerance in a continent otherwise slowly headed towards censorship and ISP-level content filtering. For it was recently reported that the Left Party, a socialist and feminist political party founded there in 1917, decided at a recent party congress that it would begin embracing file-sharing for personal use. So long as people didn't upload or share copyrighted material with the intent of profiting from it - commercial purposes - it wouldn't try to stop a practice which some called unstoppable. ?We obviously want to be the cultural workers? party in the future, but legislation which makes the majority of adult population criminals must be changed,? said Elise Norberg Pilhem of the party?s governing board.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).