Swedish pirates plan pan-European electoral assault
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Arr me hearty, let's unite The leader of the pro-filesharing Swedish Pirate Party is co-ordinating a pan-European electoral assault for 2009's European Elections.â¦
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Spain, the main gateway for illegal immigrants into the European Union, is proposing an amnesty for illicit workers at a time when other European capitals are calling for a crackdown to stem the flood.
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Large parts of Sweden's second city were thrown into chaos on Tuesday when armed robbers who raided its main post office set fire to cars, scattered spikes on roads and left dummy bombs to cover their escape.
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EU defence chiefs agree to launch a 3,000-strong paramilitary force to use in international hotspots.
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Kiruna, a mining town in north Sweden, has been invaded by thousands of rats thought to have crossed the border from Norway with garbage shipments for the local recycling center, officials said Tuesday.
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The European Commission is to draw up plans to bolster co-operation in the fight against terror.
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Sweden's centre-right bloc seeks to form a government after narrowly ousting the Social Democrats at the polls.
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(InfoWorld) - Swedish police are expected to decide later this week whether a criminal case is warranted against 10 major music and movie companies over their alleged efforts to disrupt the Pirate Bay, one of the largest file-sharing search engines. If Swedish police decide to pursue a criminal complaint, the Pirate Bay will be spared the time and expense of pursuing its own civil suit against the companies, Peter Sunde, one of a small circle of volunteers in Sweden that runs the Web site, said on Tuesday. The Pirate Bay, with an estimated two million daily users, is a search engine for torrents, or small files used to trade content between computers via a peer-to-peer (P-to-P) network. Media companies say the site is used mainly to enable the illegal trading of copyright files and have sought its closure. But the Pirate Bay struck back last Friday, filing a criminal complaint in Sweden against content companies that hired MediaDefender, a company that specializes in disrupting P-to-P networks. The Pirate Bay alleges that MediaDefender attacked its operations by distributing fake torrent files and other methods. It is charging the media companies, which include the Swedish subsidiaries of Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Sony BMG Music Entertainment, with infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, and other hacking and spamming offenses, according to its blog. The complaint followed the damaging release of thousands of internal MediaDefender e-mails, which described in part how the company tries to foil file-sharing services. MediaDefender uses a software program that sets up fake user accounts and then distributes fake torrent files, which are designed to reduce the volume of copyright files being traded, Sunde said. The source code for that software, as well as the internal e-mails, are now being widely circulating on file-sharing networks. The software can read "captchas," the strings of distorted numbers and letters designed to ensure that real people are using a Web site rather than an automated program. The Pirate Bay says it matched IP (Internet protocol) addresses for some of the fake torrents to some of the internal e-mails, providing compelling evidence that MediaDefender was sending out fake torrents, according to Sunde. The Pirate Bay blacklists IP addresses associated with fake torrents and also shares those lists with other torrent search engines, Sunde said. "We are very proactive when it comes to spam handling, but it's still a problem when they [MediaDefender] do it," he said. Despite complaints from media and content companies, the Pirate Bay has continued to operate in Sweden. In May 2006, Swedish police seized at least 25 servers after a raid on five locations, but have yet to file charges. Swedish prosecutors have until Oct. 1 to file a criminal case, but Sunde said he expects the government attorneys to file for an extension. Sunde maintains that the Pirate Bay is just a search engine and doesn't actually store any files, merely directing users to where files are located. "We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden," said Sunde, who is based in Malmo, in the south of Sweden, and also runs a Web site consulting business. As a precaution against future police action, Sunde said he knows the location of only one of the 40 or so servers currently powering the Pirate Bay. Some of those servers are now in countries outside of Sweden, he said. Â
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Absolut, the worlds second largest brand of vodka, is up for sale by the Swedish government.
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As The Pirate Bay sent out word of its 10,000,000th user this week, Swedish officials deciding whether to press copyright-related charges against the search engine face a ticking clock.
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Exemplified by the Guardian's 'pen pal' campaign, Europeans are seeking a voice in the presidential election.
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The EU plans joint naval patrols with Libya to curb the flow of illegal immigrants to Malta and Italy.
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Science & environment: Conservationists attack EU fishing quota deal that will allow fishing fleets to land an extra 11% of cod in North Sea.
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Some Swedes may need a lip retread. Sweden's state-owned pharmacy Apoteket is looking for volunteers to pucker their way into the record books.
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Sweden plans this week to charge the  people running Pirate Bay, one of the world's most visited Web  sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright law.
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Much ado about nothing? Swedish prosecutors have launched another invesigation into suspected child pornography, shared through the controversial bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. However, this time police aren't theatening to blacklist the Swedish website. "The Pirate Bay are not suspects," prosecutor Cathrine RudstrÃ¶m told Swedish newssite The Local. Police have requested logs from The Pirate Bay, including IP addresses.â¦
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Tallink Grupp, the passenger ferry and cargo ship operator, is considering of listing in Estonia, Finland or Sweden - or a combination of the three.