Blah Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Piracy law cuts internet traffic Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, reports suggest.Sweden's new policy - the Local IPRED law - allows copyright holders to force internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files.According to figures released by the government statistics agency - Statistics Sweden - 8% of the entire population use peer-to-peer sharing.Popular BitTorrent sharing site, The Pirate Bay, is also based in Sweden.The new law, which is based on the European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED), allows copyright holders to obtain a court order forcing ISPs to provide the IP addresses identifying which computers have been sharing copyrighted material.Figures from Netnod, a Swedish firm that measures internet traffic in and out of the country, suggest traffic fell from an average of 120Gbps to 80Gbps on the day the new law came into effect.Traffic liteSpeaking to the BBC, Christian Engstrom, vice-chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party - said the drop in traffic was a direct result of the new law, but that it would only be a temporary fall."Today, there is a very drastic reduction in internet traffic. But experience from other countries suggests that while file-sharing drops on the day a law is passed, it starts climbing again."One of the reasons is that it takes people a few weeks to figure out how to change their security settings so that they can share files anonymously," he added.Mr Engstrom acknowledged that the new legislation would scare a number off file-sharing, and that the odds of getting caught had increased, but said that the risks to illegal file-sharers were still quite low."We estimate there are two million file-sharing [computers] in Sweden, so even if they prosecuted 1,000 people to make an example of them, for an individual user it is still a very small risk." etc etc etc etchttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztecx Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Are you just copying and pasting this from the news feed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blah Posted April 4, 2009 Author Share Posted April 4, 2009 ahh crap...news feed beat me to it.. i usually check feed before posting sumthn new.... must have been tired... cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aztecx Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 ahh crap...news feed beat me to it.. i usually check feed before posting sumthn new.... must have been tired... cheers lol no worries haha i just thought it was funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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