"The article *link", sorry.

The "article" like points to a table where the figures mentioned in the blurb are the OLDEST values included, not the LATEST... :) The trend is falling for Java ME, not the other way around.. Duh?

This also applies to Fracking

(universities being the objective, independent source of research results)

Oh, Rly? See This American Life from July 8th this year for an example of the opposite.
It seems like many universities (in this case Penn State) are more or less dependent on continuing economic support from "benefactors" in the gas industry and are stifling dissenters.

For more info on this very subject, check out Could NetApp suit throw a wrench in Sun-IBM talks?

Or just do as many I know, buy an account at a commercial Usenet host with SSL tunneling support and no logging, and just leech on..

Also, it is no surprise the traffic volume drops if people just grab what they need from usenet instead of keep seeding torrents for foreign peers to maintain quotas on regtrackers.

Just to clarify - Sweden does NOT have an government agency for dealing with intellectual property crime!
The "anti-piracy agency" referred to by the article is just the direct translation of the name "Antipiratbyrån", a private organization with the stated aim to "protect the rights of the artists and publishers".

The Antipiratbyrån is more like the infamous US company MediaDefender, doing the hands-on dirty work of the MPAA/RIAA special interest organizations.