RSSAnti-piracy law linked to massive traffic drop in Sweden
By Tim Conneally | Published April 3, 2009, 11:30 AM
Two days ago, the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) passed in Sweden. The law requires that Internet service providers turn over the IP addresses of file sharers to authorities in cases of suspected copyright infringement.
The chilling effect this law has had on Swedish Internet traffic is palpable. Traffic metric site Netnod Internet Exchange shows that since IPRED was passed on Wednesday, traffic has dropped by around 40%.
This chart shows aggregate Internet traffic in Stockholm, Sweden for the last month. Note the peaks of the last two days are significantly lower than any day in the past month, and today's count, while not yet peaked, is below half of last month's average.
The Swedish Anti-Piracy group Antpiratbyrån issued a statement unequivocally linking the drop in traffic to IPRED. Anti-piracy lawyer Henrik Pontén said, "The majority of all internet traffic is file sharing, which is why nothing other than the new IPRED law can explain this major drop in traffic."
Swedish Pirate Party representative Rick Falkvinge countered today that such conclusions are hasty and misleading.
Swedish language newspaper Aftonbladet reported today that the first major "bust" based on the law has taken place. Two 29 year old men from Skovde were taken into police custody for sharing movie files in what was called "an international ring" of illegal file swapping.
Anti-piracy law => 40% internet traffic loss
Please, lawyers, don't forget to take a look one day to anti-spam laws (not the same amount of data as for the downloading but spams represent a lot of emails!)
oh ... I think I don't need broadband anymore for just downloading one linux distro and watching emails news facebook .... "2009 ...the return of the dialiup"
(it's a saccarstic comment ^^)
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|It's very simple. Log on to your unsuspecting neighbors unprotected wireless network.
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|Many new rules and regulations have an extreme chilling effect for a short period. This will only be meaningful if it lasts after a few months.
Young Scandinavians seem to be pretty good at finding ways around technical protections and limitations. I can see some leaps in anonymized file sharing coming from them if this law does prove to have lasting effects.
I'd love to see the media industries fight piracy the way it was done with software in the 80's and by Apple (for the recording industry) with iTunes: lower prices and ease access. Combine that with some PR asking (not threatening) people to not pirate their works and you would probably see some real drops in piracy.
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|Aw comeon. The article erroneously identifies a massive decrease in the last month while the stats focus on just ONE WEEK.
Let's see...that sure is statistically significant!
This ENTIRE article is as much speculation as it is based in fact. with FAR too little data to draw any conclusion. But hey, what better way to stimulate site action then to pander to the issue of PIRACY (as if "PIRACY" has any meaning in reference to the legal distribution of legally sourced material! LOL!) Especially when it is simply speculation about PIRACY.
But its nice to know that the root of the failure to stem piracy is that the owner's of said property didn't say "please"... *rolls eyes*
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|Or maybe some folks haven't even booted the 'puters in fear of a little virus called Conficker.
Just another possibility to consider.
Nice, warm days wins my vote, though.
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|Te reason should be pretty obvious.
As we have repeatedly been told by the entitled crowd, they are all out buying the music they were previously stealing. As after all, the downloading was only the first step in their pilgramage to BUY the material.
Either that, or everyone was shocked to experience a day of sunshine and weather above freezing and were all out enjoying the heat spell swimming in the river as they push the chunks of ice out of the way.
LOL!
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|Does this have any direct impact of The Pirate Bay and their trial?
Or is it purely those actually sharing the files themselves?
*Edit* No idea how that came to be a reply to you, Foxfyre
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