I encourage everyone to cut out and frame today’s editorial in DN. It’s one of the strangest editorials I have read in a newspaper of a democratic country, and it will probably be worth money some day. Since it was an editorial, I actually considered cancelling my subscription. But then I read this article, which is more balanced and actually shows quite clearly a couple of interesting points.
Henrik Pontén’s quote is, for example, really entertaining. Especially when he claims that this verdict will lead to “reasonable content” on the web. 
We can see in this article how this is a war between conservatives and innovators. Researchers are sceptical to these controlling behaviors, while corporations making money off of the old system want to retain the status quo. I guess one can’t blaim them. Humans are inherently afraid of change.
More interestingly, Viasat’s CEO Hans Skarplöth, whom I have discussed here earlier, is in this article as well, calling the false sense of security derived from this verdict and the IPRED-law “naive”. Brand-wise we can now start to see one of the big winners, and I think that Viasat’s moral courage will be in the marketing textbooks and lectures of the future. As will the ruined brand name Metallica.
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DN’s editorialist writes “anarchy is no model for the future”. I think that particularly this sentence reveals how clueless and this person is, just totally unaware of what’s at stake in the Pirate Bay trial.
SvD’s article on page 3 (which is open to debates) is much more in tune with my opinions. Karl Sigrid writes “the ruling against Pirate Bay will not provide artists better conditions for getting an income out of outdated business models. In contrast, the authors’ rights organizations already announced that in the light of this ruling against PB, they would take measures to strangle the flow of information on the Internet.”
He also shows the similitudes between this case and the one that has opposed Sony to companies like Universal or Disney in the 1980s.
He even suggests to “pass new legislations to protect IT-entrepreneurs and the openness of the Internet.” Karl is a right-wing (moderat) politician. You can read the article here (in swedish): http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/artikel_2756153.svd