In this paper I have focused on the underlying reasons for people and piracy. The paper starts with a presentation of the Swedish laws of copyright as they are constituted today and the new law that is supposedly being ordained the 1st of July, 2005, a brief summary of what its effects will be for the people, according to the authorities and the critisism that has developed around it from the net-pirats. Then follows a definition of the expression "norms" and what it means here in my paper. Now comes a presentation of the research I have been doing, in the form of a survey concerning why and how often people download copyrighted material from the net, and if they have ever sold any pirated copies to more than selfprice and, if so, to whom. The presentations shows that the majority of the people that are downloading copyrighted material from the Internet is doing it for the own personal use and not to make any money out of selling the material on, since most people consider it unfair to charge for something that they have got for free. The survey also shows that many of those who download copyrighted material also upload it because it gives them a satisfactory feeling of giving something in order to get something. The survey also shows that although most of the people taking the survey knows what the new law means it has not affected them in anyway. When it comes to the people that it has affected most of them say that it has affected them in that sense that they have got angry because the law is not going to work as it was meant to, or it has affected them rather in the opposite way, that they have started to download and upload even more material than before. I chose to analyse the underlying actions for piracy by using the theories in "Normvetenskap" by Håkan Hydén and the theories of etnomethodology and the expression to be "against the law". It concerns how and why people are creating a movement against something and how this is found righteous within the own crowd. To explain more what I mean when I refer to norms in my paper I have chosen to analyse it according to the "model of norms" as it is described by Håkan Hydén, Phd. Sociology of law
