Rick Falkvinge, a member of the Swedish Pirate Party, claims to have received copies of US embassy cables (from the Wikileaks archive) exposing the full extent to which the US government has been dictating Sweden's actions on copyright laws and the prosecution of The Pirate Bay. (The original article is
here; an English translation may be found
here; and the cables detailing US requirements for online surveillance provisions against file-sharing are
here.) If this is true, then the Swedish government is even better at following orders from Washington than Britain is, despite its carefully managed image of nonalignment. This follows closely revelations that
Sweden is a secret member of NATO, with military and intelligence cooperation being concealed from its parliament.