Copyright must be revised in the digital world

The trial against The Pirate Bay, the world's largest online exchange service, shows that current copyright laws have ceased to be applicable in today's modern media world, the Swedish daily Expressen writes. "The branch has been painfully slow to adapt to digital reality. The popular music service Spotify, which offers a huge range of music streams, shows that solutions can be found. Recognising people's cultural interests and the unbeatable distribution opportunities offered by the Internet is a much more viable approach to protecting copyright than hunting down file-sharing individuals or the chief ideologists of piracy. Even if legal services are unable to prevent the illegal distribution of files they are an alternative worth testing."

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