What kind hubs, servers is illegal?

[nihil]

I cannot give you an absolute ruling on Swedish law. You will have to look at Swedish newsgroups for that?

I would say that P2P applications are legal, and will continue to be so. Their original intent was to promote instant messaging and communication. Not really much different from email in concept.

Kazaa and similar products were designed to promote the sharing of entertainment files, so they might be illegal. However, I would have thought that the use of them to share copyrighted material is what is being made illegal, not the applications themselves.

The reason that I suggest this is that there is a lot of "free" or "public domain" music out there, for example on the websites of up and coming bands and entertainers. They don't mind giving away a few free songs if it gets them gigs. Only the very big stars hope to make money from recorded material, live performances are what keeps the little guy going?. To ban applications that allow these entertainers to promote themselves would possibly be construed as "activity in restriction of trade" and be illegal under EU law.

I would once again suggest that you use a local search engine and find some Swedish newsgroups, as I am sure that the subject is being hotly debated

Cheers

[!mitationRust]

(suggested references)
http://www.priweb.com/
http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/society/swed...ernet-law.html
http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/85.htm

[MrBabis]

thank you all for help

[antiman]

It is of my knowledge that also here in the US you have the right yo have 1 Back up copy of any software. And if you look closer to some cd's they have printed legends such as Do not make illegal copies, or something like that. But the only illegal part of that is distributing the software to people that didn't pay for that software. So if you make a copy for back up thats not illegal.

Most of the time this is true but I've seen some programs (not many though) that in the agreement section that pops up before you install the program that you can not make backups of the software. If you would like to make sure your not violating any laws reguarding the agreement, read the agreement before making any copies. Most people don't read the agreement section (I'll admit most of the time I don't) and if I remember correctly, by clicking ok, agree or whatever button they have, it becomes a legal binding contract to the terms listed in the agreement. If the program is copyrighted, unless shareware freeware or licenced under the GPL, you cannot distibute it to other people or in the right cases, other computers that could be owned by you. Like I said before, read the agreement and you'll probibly get the info you need on what you can and cannot do with the software.