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Interesting article on increased music sales in Sweden due to tougher laws on P2P file sharers.

Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry’s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI’s branch in Sweden—the home of illegal file-sharing—is reporting that Swedish music sales rose 18 percent in the first nine months of the year, after seven years of consecutive decline, following the introduction the anti-piracy IPRED law (via Guardian.co.uk).

Of that increase, nine percent comes from an increase in physical sales while a whopping 80 percent is attributed to digital revenue: Swedes are buying the tunes they used to borrow. [Read More]