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Telia forced to reveal file-sharing customer

Swedish Internet provider TeliaSonera has been forced to disclose the identity of a customer believed to be behind file-sharing site Swetorrents, after losing a court case to a consortium of film companies in the District Court.

Published: 4 December 2009 16:14 CET

If TeliaSonera refuses to reveal the name and address of the IP address holder, the company will face a fine of SEK 750,000.

The court based its decision on the grounds that there is a probable case for copyright rights infringement.

“The District Court has assessed the conditions of this case and is satisfied that the film studios have the right to the user details of the holder of this particular IP address,” says Annika Rygart, one of the three judges who listened to the case.

“They made the right decision,” says Sara Lindbäck, lawyer at the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office.

“The District Court conducted a very thorough review and the decision came from not one, but three judges.”

Four film companies – Swedish Film Industry, Pan Vision, Filmlance International and Yellow Bird, who represented the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office – took the case to Södertörn District Court.

TeliaSonera is expected to appeal the District Court’s decision.

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Norway youth now ‘too lazy’ to take Swedes’ café jobs: lobby group

Young Norwegians are so spoilt that most no longer consider jobs in cafés or restaurants now staffed largely by Swedes, the head of Norway’s national business lobby group has complained.

Published: 16 June 2018 16:29 CEST
Norway youth now 'too lazy' to take Swedes' café jobs: lobby group
Two staff (nationality unknown) in Oslo's Kaffebrenneriet café. Photo: Kaffebrenneriet
“We have started to see it as quite natural that there are Swedes serving beer and food our restaurants and Eastern Europeans painting our houses and picking the strawberries we eat,” Stein Lier-Hansen, chief executive of the Federation of Norwegian Industries, told the Verdens Gang newspaper. 
 
“I want to say: this means that our youth have become spoilt. And it’s not good enough.” 
 
Norwegians have worried about the damaging social effects of the country’s offshore oil wealth ever since the revenues first started pumping in back in the 1980s. 
 
But Lier-Hansen said he felt it was more necessary than ever to alert his countrymen to the problem, as he saw so many young Norwegians getting trapped in unemployment by an overly generous benefits system. 
 
“Today we have arrangements that allow young people to be lazy”, he told the newspaper, warning that in the long-run, this risked doing severe damage to the economy. 
 
“We will not remain the world's best country to live in if we allow so many people of working age not to work. The Norwegian economy will not tolerate it in the future. That’s why I’m sounding the alarm before it's too late.” 
 
His biggest fear, he said, was that those who failed to find jobs in their 20s would still be unemployed in their 40s because of gaps in their CVs would make them almost unemployable. 
 
According to Norway’s NAV state employment agency, a 25-year-old on disability benefits costs the public nine million Norwegian kroner ($1.1m) over the course of what would have been their career.