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Report: Swedish File-Sharing Down in Wake of P2P Law

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 15, 2009 - 7:41am.
Stockholm, Sweden - The conviction of the operators of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, paired with a newly enacted law aimed at prosecuting suspected illegal file-swappers has pushed the level of file-sharing down by 40 to 50% in Sweden, the local Dagens Nyheter reported.

A 30% drop-off in file-sharing activity was reported by Internet monitoring firm Netnod on the day that the new law, which will compel ISPs to turn over the identities of suspected file-swappers to copyright holders, took effect.

Nearly four months later, peer-to-peer traffic remains at the lower level reported when the law was enacted.

International record label trade group IFPI also reported that record sales in Sweden are up 14% in the first half of 2009, adding that Internet sales are up 57%.

"The law clearly signals that it's not okay to download illegally that has resulted in several good services on the internet and that new players get a chance to compete on the legal market" IFPI spokeswoman Lisa Cronstedt told Dagens Nyheter.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/nanjm (The Swedish Wire)

http://snipurl.com/naou9 (DMW previous coverage)

Published in DMW Daily, July 15, 2009
tags: Law | Policy | P2P | Music | Sweden | Copyright | Retail | IFPI | The Pirate Bay | Netnod | IPRED |



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