Justice ombudsman

I’m getting used to filing charges against the government now. But this time it’s not a thing i’m involved in personally, but I just feel really upset about.

Some background;
In March earlier this year the Swedish police did a raid at a 31 year old mans apartment. The charges was illegal file sharing and they took his computer along with optical media and such. Even though it has been set a standard based on previous court cases that file sharing in Sweden is not severe enough to do a raid they still did, probably because of pressure from the organisations behind the police report.

Those organisations are AntipiratbyrÃ¥n (APB, The bureau of anti-piracy) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the usual suspects. And what’s the big deal? Well. The prosecutor in the case decided that nobody at the police was good enough to check the harddrives for the media, so she decided that the police had to hand over the mans harddrives to APB and IFPI to do the actual investigation. She wanted them to check for the shared media, to come up with the evidence, in the same case where they are the accusing part!

APB and IFPI are commercial interest organisations for some of the larger companies in the world. People that spend money on drugs to please their partners. People that spend millions of dollars on greasing politicians all over the world. Handing over personal data, like this guys e-mail, to these people means he might not need a sentence from the swedish court system. And the evidence itself should be dismissed by the courts. And the prosecutor should be fired!

It’s hopefully unprecedented that this has happened. It’s hopefully the last time. And I’ve done my part in this by filing official charges against the prosecutor to the Justice Ombudsman. For all people living in Sweden that might read this, please do the same. Click here to get more information about how to do it.