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Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the strange-magic dept.

Moldy-Rutabaga writes "Technews says filesharing has gone up 10% on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers'."

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  1. Human nature by Erik+'Macint0sh'+J. · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Guess this just shows that sharing is a part of human nature even the RIAA can't stop no matter how much they want to.

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    /Erik Macint0sh Joergensen
  2. Haha! by wonea · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They can't win!, things get faster and faster. Theres just too much traffic now, too many users. Sharing only a couple of songs. Can you prosecute them?

  3. RIAA publicity == increase swapping by ejaw5 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As long as the RIAA keeps attracting media attention, more people will download music.

    Back in 1999, it was a chance game downloading music off of websites, audiofind IIRC was a favorite. But selection was limited, so FTP started to look like an option, but ratio trading was rather impossible with dialup. Then one day on the evening news, they were reporting on this thing called "Napster" that was common among many college campuses, straining networks. First thought: there's a program out there that lets you FIND ANY (most) music and just download them that easy.....I got to try this out!

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    $cat /dev/random > Sig
  4. it's called rebellion by jr87 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The RIAA had to add a new feeling of rebellion to filesharing...just when it was starting to feel normal too. silly RIAA