As always, the figures presented by economists should be taken with a lot of salt. Possibly inverted for better accuracy.<br><br>I can assure you that in Sweden, we are still sharing files in a never decreasing manner.<br>
<br>As for TPB, I can't blame them youngsters for moving on, and where TPB once were, there will be others.<br><br>/Erik Lönroth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Reinier Bakels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.bakels@planet.nl">r.bakels@planet.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">In my newspaper I read that
the sales (turnover) of Swedish record sellers increased by 14% in the first
half of 2009 (to 359 SEK), after a steady decline since 2001 "when P2P came up
with networks like KaZaA and Napster". At last the fruits from
IPRED.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">The artcle states that
internet traffic in Se drecreased by 30% last april when the anti-piracy law
went into force in SE. It says that people revert to streaming media that do not
allow sharing.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">Finally, the article says
that TPB is still in the air ...</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">Could anyone (from Sweden
or elsewhere) comment?</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Comic Sans MS">reinier</font></div></font></div>
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