Piracy law cuts Internet traffic

[spectruma]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm

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.

Wiki - Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_prope rty_rights)

Looks like IPRED will be coming in through the whole of the EU.

[bones]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7978853.stm



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_enforcement_of_intellectual_prope rty_rights

Looks like IPRED will be coming in through the whole of the EU.


could this be scare tatics?

[darkman]

could this be scare tatics?

still waiting for my letter form virign telling me im a downloader

sound like scaremongering to me

[jahzel]

I'll send them my two-fingered salute and they can go f*ck themselves.

[sedate_solution]

still waiting for my letter form virign telling me im a downloader

sound like scaremongering to me

Meep too,

[ritchs]

And inspecting laptops and ipods at airports for bootlegged contraband content.

[lhaull]

I can't confirm this but here in Thailand there was a news artical on telly which said this new worm which is doing the rounds and infecting x million Pc's worldwide could be designed to attack government databases world wide.

I immediately thought of the ecyber attack mentioned in other posts.

As for p2p, use an annonymous ip software or browser.

[batou]

There's no stopping the internet, there's always a way around shit.

[misterethoughts]

Fear?

[vladmir]

Im a pirate till i die.....
then i'll b a pirate in my afterlife.