STOCKHOLM (AFP) -
Sweden should require Internet providers to hand over information identifying people involved in illegal file sharing, two government ministers said in remarks published Friday.
The indentity of people who violate copyright laws through Internet file sharing should be revealed to the person whose intellectual property has been stolen "so that they themselves can do something about the violation," Justice Minister Beatrice Ask and Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth wrote in Svenska Dagbladet.
Swedish courts "should be able to force Internet providers to hand over ... information about who has a certain IP address that has been used for an Internet violation," they said.
This would allow copyright-holders to demand that the illegal downloads stop and to request compensation, they added.
The government, which is planning to present a proposal on the issue in the next couple of months, has rejected a suggestion by a special commission on illegal file sharing to force Internet companies to cut off customers who download films, music and other copyrighted material illegally.
Sweden, a country of nine million people, recently began cracking down on illegal file sharing amid charges that it had become a centre for Internet piracy.
At the end of January, prosecutors filed charges against four people suspected of running Sweden-based Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of films, music and computer games.
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