 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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Albany, CA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: I'm tired of ISPs implying usage = pirate said by fAcEtIOUs:said by KrK:said by fAcEtIOUs:Like when the Swedes passed a tougher anti-piracy law, traffic went down 33%. Uh, but they switched to proxy and anonymous downloading, so it was just a brief dip while they reconfig'd. But it proved the point that much of broadband traffic is based on illegal piracy. Well, no.
Folks in Sweden saw a new law come into effect and subsequently downloaded less. This 33% reduction in traffic, while likely caused by the harsher anti-piracy law could conceivably be attributed not only to "pirates" but to "regular law abiding folks" unsure about what constitutes "illegal downloading" and may have stopped downloading many legitimate files "just to be safe".
Now, let's say for the sake of argument that the 33% reduction in traffic was completely composed of "illegal piracy" (and I am highly skeptical of this). Then 33% is much less than the 80% that has been thrown around in the past by many folks on this forum and others.
Thus, this 33% reduction in traffic has actually proven that the "anti-piracy" shills and idiots overstated the internet traffic attributed to "piracy" by 246%! |
