US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts - Polidicks

[quote] [img]http://torrentfreak.com//images/tpb.jpg[/img] A yet to be released cable from the US Embassy in Stockholm will reveal that the United States Government was very concerned about file-sharing related issues in Sweden. The US Embassy actively worked with the Swedish authorities to reduce file-sharing related threats, which included The Pirate Bay which was raided in 2006 following US pressure. It is no secret that the US Government has been actively involved in copyright enforcement in other countries, including Sweden. After the raid on The Pirate Bay’s servers in 2006, it became clear that the US had threatened to put Sweden on the WTO’s black list if they refused to deal with the Pirate Bay problem. But that was not the end of the ‘collaboration’ between the US and Sweden on this front. According to an unreleased US Embassy cable in possession of Swedish Television, the US pressure on Sweden to deal with file-sharing issues continued in the years that followed. In the cable, which dates back to 2008, the US Embassy presented a list of six items that they wanted to see addressed, all related to online copyright infringement. A year later, five of these six items were indeed turned into action, including the appointment of more copyright police and prosecutors, backed up by educational anti-piracy campaigns. Of course, the Pirate Bay wasn’t left unmentioned in this cable either. The cable writer mentions that it was hard for the Embassy to get openly involved in piracy related issues, because most of the press coverage was unfavourable towards the copyright industry. “After the raid on The Pirate Bay on May 31, 2006, the issue of internet piracy was fiercely debated in Sweden. Press coverage was largely, and still is, unfavourable to the positions taken by the rights-holders and the United States Government,” the cable reads. “The Pirate Bay raid was portrayed as the Government of Sweden caving in to United States Government pressure. This delicate situation made it difficult, if not counter-productive, for the Embassy to play a public role in IPR issues,” it adds. Excerpt from the cable In a response to the revelations, Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask denied that Sweden ever responded to pressure from the US Government. She hinted that the cable writer was making these remarks just to get a better payday. Former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde was surprised about the leaked cable, although the fact that the US put pressure on the Swedish Government was not that new to him. “We all knew for a long while that the US was behind the raid and pressured Sweden, but that they’re still doing it was news to us,” Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak. “And that the Minster of Justice just says that the cable writer is lying ‘to get a higher salary’ shows that she doesn’t even care if her government is corrupt.” The cable in question has not been published by Wikileaks yet, but is expected to be released in the near future. This, and other cables, are likely to add more insight into the backroom deals related to file-sharing and copyright issues. [url]http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-cable-shows-us-involvement-in-swedish-anti-piracy-efforts-101207/[/url] [/quote] So the raid on the piratebay really was ordered by the white house. The American government should try to improve their own freedom, instead of fucking with others. :argh:

[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;26555060]So the raid on the piratebay really was ordered by the white house. The American government should try to improve their own freedom, instead of fucking with others. :argh:[/QUOTE] Like the united states ever cared about democracy or freedom. Over the past 60 years we've toppled democratic governments just to replace them with our own right wing fascist dictators so long as theyre capitalist. The united states has about as much interest in democracy as the USSR did in socialism.

See these are the kinds of leaks that I want. Stop releasing military positions and the whole the King of Saudi Arabia actually hates Iran discussions. It's a shame Wikileaks has gone from, cool whistleblowing organization, to release anything that has the word classified in it. [editline]7th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Jiyoon;26555108]Like the united states ever cared about democracy or freedom. Over the past 60 years we've toppled democratic governments just to replace them with our own right wing fascist dictators so long as theyre capitalist. The united states has about as much interest in democracy as the USSR did in socialism.[/QUOTE] South America is the prime example of this. Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the list goes on. Not to mention things in Central America like Nicaragua.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;26555122]See these are the kinds of leaks that I want. Stop releasing military positions and the whole the King of Saudi Arabia actually hates Iran discussions. It's a shame Wikileaks has gone from, cool whistleblowing organization, to release anything that has the word classified in it. [editline]7th December 2010[/editline] South America is the prime example of this. Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the list goes on. Not to mention things in Central America like Nicaragua.[/QUOTE] 50,000 people died in el salvador because of the reagan administrations support of fascist regimes.

Threatening to interfere with trade in foreign nations to make them prosecute people to protect the profits of US corporations. Fucking disgusting.

i thought sweden was cool :(

[QUOTE=Teh Phoenix;26555388]i thought sweden was cool :([/QUOTE] Sweden is cool. Imagine the pressure from the most powerful nation in the world threatening to blacklist you in from the World Trade Organization. It's impossible to resist caving in. [quote=Jiyoon]50,000 people died in el salvador because of the reagan administrations support of fascist regimes. [/quote] Yeah. Don't forget the horrible atrocities committed by Augusto Pinochet in Chile either.

[QUOTE=Edthefirst;26555684] Yeah. Don't forget the horrible atrocities committed by Augusto Pinochet in Chile either.[/QUOTE] Or the overthrowing of Iran's democratically elected president Mohammad Mosaddegh, which started a chain of events that would lead the country into the islamic shithole it is today.

[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;26559911]Or the overthrowing of Iran's democratically elected president Mohammad Mosaddegh, which started a chain of events that would lead the country into the islamic shithole it is today.[/QUOTE] foresight, something my country leadership lacks.

People didn't know this? [editline]8th December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Edthefirst;26555122]See these are the kinds of leaks that I want. Stop releasing military positions and the whole the King of Saudi Arabia actually hates Iran discussions. [/QUOTE] Yeah, forget global politics, my [I]Gigli [/I]torrent is at stake!

Well this was really fucking obvious anyway. At least it's confirmed now.

Go fuck yourself USA

Hopefully once we are no longer the #1 economy, our government won't be able to do this stuff.

It was kind of obvious that the US had something to do with the Pirate Bay raid in 2006. This also shows how easily our governments would do such drastic things if the US government tells them to.

In my eyes, the entire concept of an economy is destined to fail.

I hope Sweden Retaliates,stop fucking with our Freedom already USA

Joining bandwagon, hey USA fuck off from my porch!

Yay! More stuff about US Imperialism for my Research Paper!

Blaming an entire country instead of just the government, you really are all a bunch of children, grow up.

Stuff like this is why people overseas hate us.

[QUOTE=PariahKing;26565921]Stuff like this is why people overseas hate us.[/QUOTE] The government is not a single monolithic creature that acts with one will and one voice. It's composed of hundreds of thousands bureaucrats, soldiers, elected representatives et al, some of whom are greedy fucks who get paid off by media companies to pursue this kind of agenda.

[QUOTE=Splendor;26566332]The government is not a single monolithic creature that acts with one will and one voice. It's composed of hundreds of thousands bureaucrats, soldiers, elected representatives et al, [B]most [/B]of whom are greedy fucks who get paid off by media companies to pursue this kind of agenda.[/QUOTE] Fixed.

USA pol and interpol are now synonymous in the eyes of right wings.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26565752]Blaming an entire country instead of just the government, you really are all a bunch of children, grow up.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure it is commonplace to refer to simply the country when speaking of its government.

The americans are involved with everything, face it. Edit: Not to deny that they do bad shit but what are we going to do about it? We don't have jack shit on America. America doesn't want democracy anymore, it wants money, power and influence.

A country is it's government. Because government shapes it, not the citizens.

[QUOTE=goon165;26560970]foresight, something my country leadership lacks.[/QUOTE] Another prime example is Afghanistan. We supplied them with weapons and training in the 80s when the USSR was invading, and as soon as they pulled out we just left them for themselves. It's not surprising why the country became ruled by the Taliban. Everything they had was destroyed and over 1 million dead. The US government should have seriously aided in reconstructing Afghanistan. We already had the hearts and minds of the people after the war, and had we helped them back on their feet we could have had a powerful ally in the region. Now all we have is an undominable hell-hole that sucks up lives and taxpayer dollars.

USA is the new Nazi Germany

As much as I hate to say it and think it's pretty "hippy" and "sensationalist" the US really is an almost purely capitalist country. Any illusions I've had of it being a democracy are pretty much gone and not just because of the Wikileaks shit.

Talkin' bout a revoloooshunn [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wgmNtcRmu8[/media] About time.