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

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