Finnish Copyright Information and Anti-piracy Centre (CIAPC) toughens its fear campaign against filesharers. CIAPC has now used the new Finnish copyright law from January 1st 2006 to close an internet connection because of suspected filesharing. It came as a surprise to even CIAPC itself that the closed connection did not belong to a private filesharer but instead to the Provincial Government of Åland. A government employee had seemingly used the connection to share music.

The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) has published the results of its large p2p study based on an online poll of over 6,000 participants. The results show that the new stricter Finnish copyright law enabled year 2006 (coined as Lex Karpela according to Tanja Karpela who was the Minister of Culture at the time) has had only a minimal effect on filesharers. Only 10% of P2P users reported that the new copyright law had at least somewhat decreased their P2P usage.