France passes La Hadopi AGAIN

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by Kali Yuga

*shrug* Exhibit as much confirmation bias as you like, the "mere correlation" makes a fair amount sense -- as does attributing the 30% plunge in Internet traffic to the day the law kicked in. Or do you have a better explanation for an increase in legal sales in the middle of the worst recession in over 60 years?

This is an industry that is well known for playing all sorts of games with it's "creative" statistics. You really believe everything you read?

[DawnFalcon]

Originally Posted by Kali Yuga

Oh?

Spotify is not sales. Also, there are some price hikes in there. In the longer term, the indicators are bad, unathorised copying continues to rise and there's beginning to be a high turnover of Spotify customers (i.e. they've ripped, now they're quitting the service).

The plunge in net traffic is at least in part due to several major peering/transit companies shutting up shop, and several of my Swedish friends say that their connections are still noticeable slower and higher ping that pre the law.

And I'n not fine with any process which involves analysing one-way traffic, because of the way trackers deliberately random seed IP's.