IPRED Law falling…soon

Friday, April 17th, 2009

In the beginning of this month I covered the IPRED law that was applied in Sweden to hunt illegal Peer 2 Peer file sharing. I also said that I will give it 2 weeks before it starts to fall apart. It seems that I was right !
Exactly 2 weeks later, internet service provider (ISP) Banhof [...]

IPRED Law kills internet traffic in Sweden

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

IPRED stands for International Property Rights Enforcement Directive and it is the new directive from the EU to stop illegal file sharing over the internet.
In short the law forces ISPs to reveal the names of people attached to IP addresses suspected of sharing copyrighted music, movies, other files illegally on the internet.
The law took effect [...]