Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading

Quantos writes with word that in Sweden, in addition to a drop in traffic following the introduction of the IPRED anti-file sharing law, the country also saw a doubling of legal downloads. "The sale of music via the Internet and mobile phones has increased by 100 percent since the Swedish anti-file sharing IPRED law entered into force last week, according to digital content provider InProdicon. '...I don't know if this is only because of IPRED, but it is definitely a sign of a major change,' said managing director Klas Brännström. InProdicon provides half of the downloaded tunes in Sweden via several online and mobile music services." Meanwhile The Pirate Bay's anticipated VPN service has seen over 113,000 requests for beta invitations since late last month; 80% are from Sweden. Traffic numbers may begin to rise again once the service goes live.

Re:WIll it last?

[Quothz]

All it needs is some "anonymizing" P2P network to appear

Like the one mentioned in the summary, you mean?

Swedes are allowing terrorism to work...

[gnesterenko]

I know, its harsh and maybe too soon, but essentially that is what is going on here. Finally, a real credible threat of prosecution due to file sharing, and so SOME started buying legally. Sales go up and now this is going to be used by corps as evidence that we need stricter online laws etc etc, file sharing dies, corps rake in more dough for subpar products. Nothing good will come of this... that is of course until smart, talented coders come up with even a more anonymous way of sharing that keeps everyone's nose out of our business. Pirate Bay is trying something in this respect, but not quite there, still just disguising you using the old method. New guys will code around this by summer and things will go back to normal - I will hope.

I read...

[Quantos]

I read the article and his blog and came to the conclusion that somewhere some medical professionals are looking for him.
I don't see anything on his site that has any verifiable information on it. He's put a lot of work into trying to connect the dots, but to me it just sounds like a conspiracy theory nut.

Re:WIll it last?

[rrohbeck]

All it needs is some "anonymizing" P2P network to appear and it will go all the way back down the big snake to square 1.

I2P [i2p2.de] with I2PSnark (built in.) Fully anonymous, encrypted Bittorrent with acceptable performance.

Re:The VpN

[Kjella]

On the flip side, this would be a very special VPN nexus not just a general purpose one: namely if you ran all the p2p traffic through it then nearly all the requests would be for packets that had already passed through the nexus earlier. So hanging a cache off the nexus would make things simpler. It would no longer be p2p at all but rather a clearing house for packets of common interest.

Yes, we could call the duration these packets that are kept for retention, and to not have so much interational traffic we could have several servers. To ensure competition we could even have feeds between these servers so you could pick your provider. Rather than torrent you could post files to this nexus, except for some reason the extension nzb comes to mind rather than torrent. What you're looking for has been done and much, much better as long as you're willing to pay for a server. All that's needed is a good client to automate all the WTFs of uuencode/yenc/multiparts/pars/split rars and it's essentially the same.

It would be interesting if you could seamlessly integrate usenet (the 1980s called, the secret is out) into a swarm though. Like, the first usenet-enabled client would check for the file parts on usenet and if they don't exist just post them to alt.binaries.torrent-parts, enabling all other usenet-enabled clients to download it from there instead of P2P. I don't think the message ids and NNTP protocol makes that possible though, you'd need some kind of content-based hash/query system.