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images/news/bittorrent.jpgIt's no secret that P2P traffic makes up a huge percentage of the total traffic on the Internet. Also no secret is that fact that some portion of that traffic is used for nefarious purposes like downloading movies that haven't been released or software that Microsoft doesn't want you to have yet.
Yesterday, the IPRED era was ushered in for Swedes, and an incredible 33% drop in Internet traffic followed. The vice-chair of Sweden's Pirate Party, Chrisitian Engstrom, said the decrease was a direct result of the new law.
Under IPRED's provisions, service providers can now be ordered by the court to turn over detailed information about traffic to a user's IP address. It remains to be seen whether or not the logs will be enough to be constitute sufficient proof for charges laid against file sharers.
It's an obvious scare tactic, but one that has proved effective for now. Even if only 1,000 of Sweden's 2 million-plus file sharers are prosecuted (as Engstrom proposes), that may not be a gamble the average downloader wants to take.
The P2P community has historically come up with ways around this kind of "annoyance." PirateBay's Ipredator service is coming, and may provide users with a simple and inexpensive way to avoid logging.
Download Squad
Yesterday, the IPRED era was ushered in for Swedes, and an incredible 33% drop in Internet traffic followed. The vice-chair of Sweden's Pirate Party, Chrisitian Engstrom, said the decrease was a direct result of the new law.
Under IPRED's provisions, service providers can now be ordered by the court to turn over detailed information about traffic to a user's IP address. It remains to be seen whether or not the logs will be enough to be constitute sufficient proof for charges laid against file sharers.
It's an obvious scare tactic, but one that has proved effective for now. Even if only 1,000 of Sweden's 2 million-plus file sharers are prosecuted (as Engstrom proposes), that may not be a gamble the average downloader wants to take.
The P2P community has historically come up with ways around this kind of "annoyance." PirateBay's Ipredator service is coming, and may provide users with a simple and inexpensive way to avoid logging.
Download Squad
