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Reuters News Wire (reuters@telecom-digest.org) Wed, 31 May 2006 18:16:36 -0500
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Swedish police shut Web site in music piracy raid.
Swedish police detained three people in raids and closed an Internet
The Web site operators could not be contacted but supporters said the
Last year, Sweden banned the downloading of copyright material after
"Three people ... have been taken in for questioning on suspicion of
"The preliminary inquiry is related to so-called file sharing and
It gave no further details but the International Federation of
"The Pirate Bay has damaged the legitimate music industry on an
But Rickard Falkvinge, who launched the Pirate Party this year to run
"Pirate Bay has not committed any crime," Falkvinge said in a
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