Sweden Approves Anti-Piracy Package

Forbes: Last week, Sweden's Parliament passed a new law (effective July 1) which makes it illegal to download copyrighted material from the Internet.  Until now it was only illegal if you were an uploader, but now downloaders are also going to be punished. However, the new law is not totally draconian as it does allow making disc copies for personal use - but surprisingly it slaps an unusually high  tax [SEK 1.75 or US $0.24]  on blank  recordable optical discs - which many have been claiming would help offset the losses to copyright holders...Theoretically this is true, but then how would they disburse the monies?  Would royalties be calculated by actual sales or monitored P2P traffic??  Does this type of tax actually benefit the artists or is it just a smokescreen? (i.e., DAT tape/recorder taxes were previously tried in the 90's...)

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--Sweden Passes Package of Anti-Piracy Laws