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Originally Posted by DamageX
Sweden has the same laws as the "rest of the developed world". Difference is, it actually follows and enforces them, as opposed to say the US where sites are being taken offline illegally, without any actual laws to ban their practices.
Not taking sides here, just playing the devil's advocate. Unless LAWS are passed in every country regulating the behaviour of torrent trackers, tube sites etc, they are not illegal.
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not a 100% correct sweden's laws has a piracy tax like canada
and their safe harbor provision is not as strong (which is why host can be bullied into taking down sites like this)
however torrent sites have done a good job of making the following points
- there is no copyright material IN the torrrent file
- people have a fair use right to the content (timeshfiting, back up, recovery)
- the piracy tax authorizes a lot of the piracy in question (see cira vs rogers ruling in canada)
as a result many hosts are willing to continue to host the "illegal" sites even though not explictly protected by laws because they know the precedents have been set it court to defend their customers actions.