Swedish Pirate lucks, a fine of $ 7 for each song

It seems that the Sweden plans to punish filesharers sentenced with fines more reasonable that we are accustomed to seeing in the United States. TorrentFreak reports that a court in Sweden has found a man of Uppsala 26-year-old guilty of illegally sharing 37 songs online and face a fine of 2000 kronor, which equates to about $ 311 or $ 7 for each song.

In comparison, a U.S. Court ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay $ 1.5 million in damages in 2010 for illegally sharing 24 songs or an absurd $ 62,500 per file. In one case, lesser known, Joel Tenenbaum was slammed with a fee of $ 67,500 for sharing 24 songs, and that sum was reduced from the jury's assessment of damages of $ 675,000.

It is said that the Swedish court initially requested the man with no name pay around $ 45 for every song that would work in approx. $ 1980, but in the end was lowered. "Swedish courts may be coming slowly their directions regarding non-commercial infringements of the copyright monopoly," said the founder of the Pirate Party Rick Falkvinge.

"The verdict is in sharp contrast to the political judgment in the Pirate Bay trial, where four people were sentenced to long prison sentences and paying 3, 500, 000 for aiding simply sharing possibly 33 works," he continued. Do you think that the judgment of Sweden will set the precedence for the future of filesharing cases across Europe and in the United States?