File sharing, the entertainment industry, and the IPRED law

We investigate the relationship between file sharing and music and movie sales by evaluating the effects of the Swedish implementation of the IPRED law in 2009. During the last decade global music sales have fallen drastically. The music industry has claimed that file sharing is the main reason for this. In 2009, the IPRED-law was implemented in Sweden where the aim was to control the widespread practice of file sharing of music and movies. We investigate the effects of the IPRED-law on illegal file sharing of music and movies in Sweden and the indirect the effects of file sharing on music and movie sales.