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Filesharing Traffic Drops After RIAA Threats
bryan writes "According to CNN, facing the threat of lawsuits from a music industry trade group, fewer people are using online filesharing applications to swap songs. Internet audience measurement service Nielsen Net Ratings said traffic on Kazaa, the leading filesharing platform, fell 15 percent in the week ended July 6 from the previous week. It was during that prior week, on June 25, that the Recording Industry Association of America said it would track down the heaviest users of "peer-to-peer" services like Kazaa and sue them for damages of up to $150,000 per copyright violation." This follows earlier reports, from the filesharing companies themselves, that traffic was actually increasing.
How many of you have slowed or stopped your file sharing???
10% claimed up, 15% claimed down, that means we should see a 22.5% up counter-claim.
Unless aces are wild, which could throw the whole thing off.
Ryan Fenton
About them File Swappers,
ain't it just wrong?
Goin' all around
swappin' them songs.
Swappin' them Mp3s,
and the movies, what the hey?
Gettin' nasty threads
from the RIAA.
Look at those File Swappers
tradin' up a torrent
Waitin' 'til the fateful day
they burst in with a warrant.
How to be a File Swapper,
don't need a ticket.
Get a P2P app,
click the file and swap it.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
According to CNN, facing the threat of lawsuits from a music industry trade group, fewer people are using online filesharing applications to swap songs.
Fine, whatever. Just as long as the number of people sharing porn videos doesn't drop!
GMD
watch this
No wonder I was having trouble finding a decent mp3 of "Don't copy that floppy".
"How many of you have slowed or stopped your file sharing???"
We at 65.42.25.3 are still going strong.
"I can't belive that many people really had something better to do than surf the web on a holiday."
I did some DNA uploading with my girlfriend.
In related news, job attendance dropped 20% compared to the previous week.
This is brilliant! Better yet, don't let the RIAA get credit for it -- steal their stats, refurbish them as market research & sell them to record companies ;-)
"Obviously, I'm not an IBM computer any more than I'm an ashtray" (Bob Dylan)
Everyone was stuck so long in the airport security lines over the Fourth of July Weekend that they're just now getting out and haven't been able to run kazaa in two weeks.
If you want real anonymity you need something called "plausible deniability" which you can get only from projects such as freenet.
Or, your neighbors un-protected wireless AP. You gotta love other peoples networks
So I guess that leaves the other 85% downloading pr0n safe then?
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born - Ronald Reagan
an open note to riaa:
sorry to disappoint. i was on vacation. shutdown my kazaa shared folder. i am back now, you can expect the traffic to go back up.
(ms. rosen: i am just kidding. pleazzz don't sue me.)
now supporting:
cmdrTaco for president '04
michael for oval office intern summer '05
That drop in traffic is my fault. I just got my first Mac and I'm still looking for a good p2p client! I hope to be online soon and get those traffic levels back to normal.
Makes perfect sense to me. Since everyone who has an internet connection uses it to pirate music, we should all be forced to pay for this! Its not people out there use the internet for things like....oh, I don't know...shopping, or for information.
If I'm going to be treated like a criminal (and I already am, seeing as how I buy CD-Rs for data backup and mixing my own albums from music I legally own), I'm going to at least act like a criminal. Hoist the Jolly Rogers, it's time to sail the IRCs! Yaaaarrrrrrr!
Next weeks article:
File sharing on p2p networks rises 15% despite RIAA threats; ShieldW0lf buys new hard drive; has more space to download; reconnects to network.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Dear RIAA, You have won. All of us misadjusted p2p users are no longer sharing mp3s of legitimate artists. Instead, we now trade songs of our children banging on pots and pans. Sincerely, Your Customers.
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Another one bites the dust...
I just imagine some RIAA lawyer sitting behind his desk and pumping his fist going "Yeah, you like that, don't you bitch?"
...individuals filed fewer tax forms to Accounting offices across the nation during the April 20th - 26th week.
Of course the numbers are going to fall. Americans do enjoy 3 day traveling weekends.
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