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Swedish Internet Traffic Down 33%
03 Apr 2009 | 09.09 Europe/London
Introduction of an anti-piracy law in Sweden has seen internet traffic fall 33% on the day it came into force.
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.
Traffic between Sweden and other countries fell from 120 to 80 Gbits/s, a useful illustration of the impact of file "sharing" (ie copyright evasion) on ISP networks and costs.
[ BBC News ]
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.
Traffic between Sweden and other countries fell from 120 to 80 Gbits/s, a useful illustration of the impact of file "sharing" (ie copyright evasion) on ISP networks and costs.
[ BBC News ]
[...] Plusnet graphs and the Swedish experience suggest that it could well be in the ISP’s interest to lose heavy P2P users from their [...]
12 May 2009 | 09.18 Europe/London