That illegal price fixing, cartels and monopolies are illegal but if you're a multi-national film company owning even the cinemas themselves you can totally ignore the law providing you give large illegal backhanders to ministers to keep them under control.
If you know what copyright is, then you know you are breaking the law by downloading or file sharing without permission. Copyright law is what it is and is adopted amongst & upheld worldwide - dont do the crime if you cant do the time!
There is a catch to Smáis claims of a drop in network traffic of 40%. 
That drop in traffic is only Between the local ISPs here in Iceland. 
Overseas traffic has risen about 250% and so has the load on the Farice Sealine Optic.
So in one swoop Smais caused major overseas net connection blackouts for companies causing even stronger Bittorent throttling by the ISPs.
That illegal price fixing, cartels and monopolies are illegal but if you're a multi-national film company owning even the cinemas themselves you can totally ignore the law providing you give large illegal backhanders to ministers to keep them under control.
In terms of EVE online i'll gladly pay the 2.6 million ISK lol!

1 Billion ISK is about 50 quid.....
If you know what copyright is, then you know you are breaking the law by downloading or file sharing without permission. Copyright law is what it is and is adopted amongst & upheld worldwide - dont do the crime if you cant do the time!
There is a catch to Smáis claims of a drop in network traffic of 40%. 
That drop in traffic is only Between the local ISPs here in Iceland. 
Overseas traffic has risen about 250% and so has the load on the Farice Sealine Optic.
So in one swoop Smais caused major overseas net connection blackouts for companies causing even stronger Bittorent throttling by the ISPs.