wheel - 6:42 pm on Apr 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

lol. 1/3 of internet traffic is illegal downloads. In other news, 2/3 of internet traffic is people looking for nekkid pictures.

Reading the article though, this sounds like the wrong approach. Seems like they're giving private enterprise the ability to track and go after individuals who are file sharing illegally - without going to the police. The proper approach is of course to let the police deal with this. Unfortunately for copyright holders, the police have better things to do with their times than go file sharers. I'm all over copyright protection, but this kinda smells like goverment mandated vigilante justice.

And of course, Sweden's laws cover Sweden, not the rest of the universe, which covers a lot more territory. Heck, in some countries I think this copyright stuff is basically non-existent. I think there's even westernized countries where downloading certain (C) material is legal (Uploading isn't).

I wish they'd just throw some money at the police to go after the problem. A few knocks on the door from the cops "you know what your son is doing in the basement with your computer?" would probably do far more to shut this stuff down than some big corp. trying to chase some 14 year old.