Within weeks, those who file sharing movies and TV series illegally receive an invoice in the mail with a requirement of 2 000 kronor to avoid further legal process. The requirement comes from a new organization that several of the Swedish rights holders cooperate with.
The initiative is called Dissemination Kollen run by Gothia Law, a finance company owned by Arvato Finance. They in turn work for rights holders, Scanbox, Atlantic Film, Noble Entertainment and Crystalis Entertainment.
To begin with investing Kollen Dissemination of an awareness campaign through advertisements.
But only within a few weeks, they plan to start tracking those users who share files illegally and send dunning letters up to a thousand people, explains Gordon Oden Bark at Gothia Law.
– It will take a number of weeks before we send the first demands. Our clients do not see this as a source of income, but they want us to go out and announce what is to come. So that people get an understanding of the seriousness, he said.
file sharers are identified by scattering Kollen monitors so-called torrent files, one of the most common forms of file sharing, and records which iP addresses that spread the information.
The IP address can then be used to identify who is behind Internet subscription, and that’s where requirements the letter will be sent.
To get personal information about who hiding behind an IP address must Dissemination Kollen go to court. They use the so-called IPRED law introduced in 2009 based on an EU directive.
Daniel Westman, a doctoral student in legal informatics at Stockholm University, says that the person who owns the rights to a work likely will get the right of a court if they try to identify an IP address.
The question is what happens if the person receiving the letter denies.
IP addresses can only be associated with an Internet account, not who actually performed action, without further evidence.
– probably bet that most will agree to a settlement, said Daniel Westman.
Gordon Oden Bark says if someone denies one will get to handle it case by case.
But if the person singled out does not come with a reasonable explanation, there will be further and could lead to a lawsuit.
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