Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts

It's well-known in some circles that the US leans on other governments to tow their corporate line - often directly threatening that nation's sovereignty. One more example:

It is no secret that the US Government has been actively involved in copyright enforcement in other countries, including Sweden. After the raid on The Pirate Bay’s servers in 2006, it became clear that the US had threatened to put Sweden on the WTO’s black list if they refused to deal with the Pirate Bay problem.

But that was not the end of the ‘collaboration’ between the US and Sweden on this front.

According to an unreleased US Embassy cable in possession of Swedish Television, the US pressure on Sweden to deal with file-sharing issues continued in the years that followed. In the cable, which dates back to 2008, the US Embassy presented a list of six items that they wanted to see addressed, all related to online copyright infringement.

A year later, five of these six items were indeed turned into action, including the appointment of more copyright police and prosecutors, backed up by educational anti-piracy campaigns. ...

The Update:

Cables: US driving Swedish Data Retention

Taking a closer look at the Stockholm 09-141 cable, we find that the United States was the driving force behind the IPRED legislation, that it was the driving force behind threats to Swedish ISPs in 2008, and that it is currently the driving force behind the so-called “step two of the data retention”, which was presented by the Justice Minister last Thursday. This legislation will give police at-will access to all and any collected records under Data Retention in the proposed Police Methods Report (polismetodutredningen, PMU). Ordinarily, prison sentences of more than two years would have been required to collect IP addresses, but the PMU changes this before the Data Retention is even in place.

The objective is laid out in clear text: to combat file sharing, ordinary people sharing culture with one another. See paragraph nine, my highlights:

9. (U) Granting police and prosecutors the right to identities behind IP numbers of individuals potentially implicated in copyright crimes of lower dignity, i.e. fines rather than prison sentences: … The GOS [Government of Sweden] has agreed to change the legislation.

The United States Government is driving the creation of a Big Brother state in Sweden, including draconian data retention measures, in order to have it combat simple and everyday petty copyright infringements on behalf of American interests.

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So along with pre-emptive strikes for democracy, the US has been strong-arming other nations for their sovereignty directly, in their legislative forums.

So the Swedish are now lap dogs of the USA now, so just like that.

Wow that explains all of the other country's rushing to please there master.

So what the US says NO jets for you, you do as they ask and get a bone for doing it.

Nice One world Government is already here.

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Nice One world Government is already here.

Yep, and it's a Corporate NWO.

The legal framework is fixed by international trade law.