Sweden

(A) Circumvention of technical protection measures for copyright protected works – Sec-tion 52d and section 53 of the Copyright Act. As mentioned under Question 5.1, above, it is prohibited to circumvent, without the consent of the author, any digital or analogue lock which prevents or limits the making of copies of a work protected by copyright, to circumvent a technological process, such as encryption, that prevents or limits the making available to the public of a work protected by copyright, or to circumvent any other technological measure that prevents or limits such acts of making available, under section 52d of the Copyright Act. Violations are punishable by fines or imprisonment for at most two years under section 53 of the Copyright Act, i.e. and therefore regarded as criminal offences.
(B) Circumvention of technical protection measures for computer programs – Section 57a of the Copyright Act. Selling, leasing or possession for sale, lease or for any commercial purposes, of any device intended solely for facilitating unauthorised removal or circumvention of a device placed in order to protect a computer program against unauthorised reproduction, is prohibited under section 57a of the Copyright Act. Violations are punishable by fines or imprisonment for not more than six months, i.e. and therefore regarded as criminal offences.