FYI: This news does not effect the Pirate Bay decision, the IPRED law only coming into affect on April 1, 2009, but it seems to have had an effect on torrent traffic.
On CNET:
Swedish antipiracy law: Traffic down, ISP rebels
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Immediately following the enactment of a new Swedish antipiracy law on April 1, Internet traffic in Sweden plummeted--and it has yet to return to prior levels.
According to Netnod, an organization that measures Internet traffic on access points between Swedish and international networks, traffic went down from average data speeds of about 160 gigabits per second to about 90Gbps and has remained so since the day the new law went into effect.
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"Almost half the Internet is gone," Karlung told CNET News over the telephone from Sweden. "Likely, it is the torrent traffic that has declined, but I cannot say whether this traffic is legal or illegal."
The so-called IPRED originated from the European Union's "International Property Rights Enforcement Directive." IPRED stipulates that property rights holders can take their grievances to a court, which will examine the evidence and decide whether the name of a holder of an IP address will be released.
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This could been given a separate news thread, but it directly relates to pirating and I thought that here would be an appropriate place for it.
Link to IPRED in article not working, but I found reference in Wikipedia
here.