Today's story about international intellectual property battles: apparently the United States was involved in getting Swedish police to raid Pirate Bay.
At an April meeting, the US delegation expressed its displeasure at the site.
Officials from the State Department, the Department of Commerce and the U.S. trade representative's office told visitors from the Swedish Ministry of Justice in April that Sweden was harboring one of the world's biggest Web sites for enabling the massive and unauthorized distribution of movies, music and games.
The raid on The Pirate Bay took place a little more than a month later.
It wasn't just the US government that was concerned about the issue, of course. The MPAA was not amused, either...
Ars Technica goes on to suggest the US is pressuring Russia to crack down on AllofMP3.com
You mean allofmp3.com
Posted by: Steven | June 17, 2006 at 13:35
Indeed I do. Duly corrected.
Posted by: Bryan | June 17, 2006 at 16:45