Attacks On File Sharing Simply Drive People Further Underground

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 04:53

Admittedly it's just an estimate, but reports coming out of Sweden suggest that, rather than stop file sharing, under the new IPRED law, a growing number of file sharing users have simply gone further underground using anonymizing services .

Of course, this shouldn't surprise anyone, as plenty of people have been predicting that's exactly that would happen for the better part of a decade.

You would think that folks in the entertainment industry might actually pay attention since...

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