Comments on: Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on

By: Dude from Finland

Dude from Finland — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:05:04 +0000

“# hackers/pirates of the world unite Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

ya like insecure VPN that you use a credit card with that ties you FOR SURE to the activity
YEA brilliant”

Ties you to what activity? They trace the connection back to a VPN service that keeps no records and has 1000 customers. Who are they going to sue? All of them? Because the had the chance to DL stuff? Not likely.

By: www.eZee.se

www.eZee.se — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:22:56 +0000

Speaking from Stockholm – Sweden here,

VPN *is* the way to go… in 3 days i have upped 110gigs of data, no fear.

Once IPREADator comes online, people like me are going to be the rule, rather than the exception.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:52:02 +0000

Another prooflink that Swedes are looking for privacy-preserving p2p solutions:

http://sigfridinenglish.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/oneswarm-replaces-the-pirate-bay-in-sweden/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:26:55 +0000

Nothing in the world to stop folks from taking external drives when they go to visit friends. This sort of sharing where instead of a few measly gigs could be downloaded would offer instead a few hundred to a TB of information to share. Even better, it won’t show up on any sort of graphic anytime soon. Instead it will look like everyone quit file sharing until new data can be gathered to show that file sharing never slowed down. It just went another route that isn’t as easy to get information about. Best of all, there is no IP to trace, no snooping by ISPs to prove it happened and everybody is still getting things just like they always did.

By: hackers/pirates of the world unite

hackers/pirates of the world unite — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:43:05 +0000

ya like insecure VPN that you use a credit card with that ties you FOR SURE to the activity
YEA brilliant

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:41:48 +0000

Or even this graph:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=vpn%2C+ipred&ctab=0&geo=se&geor=all&date=2009&sort=0

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:40:34 +0000

http://www.google.com/trends?q=vpn&date=2009&geo=swe&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

People stopped sharing to investigate alternatives to plain insecure p2p.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:09:05 +0000

Was this phenomena caused by the IPRED law. Yes! Certainly.

Will people resort to other means of obtaining material of their liking that isn’t using such an open and easy to track protocol as Bittorrent/Kazaa?

Yes! Certainly.

Will the media companies start providing cheaper and better means of delivery because of this effect?

Definetely not.