Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive

Swedish File-Sharers Mull VPN (Virtual Pirate Network)

John Paczkowski in News on April 2, 2009 at 9:54 am PT

If Sweden’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive was crafted to scare the hell out of the country’s Internet population, it seems to have had the desired affect. Swedish Internet traffic dropped by a third on Wednesday after the law, which allows copyright holders to force ISPs to divulge the IP addresses of computers sharing copyrighted material, was implemented.