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.

Comments

Taking a poll

[ranolen]

How many of you have slowed or stopped your file sharing???

Logical counter-claim.

[RyanFenton]

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

No problem!

[GuyMannDude]

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

MC Hammer-"Can't touch this"

[Anonymous Coward]

"How many of you have slowed or stopped your file sharing???"

We at 65.42.25.3 are still going strong.

Re:MC Hammer-"Can't touch this"

[duck_prime]

"How many of you have slowed or stopped your file sharing???"

We at 65.42.25.3 are still going strong.

And the mighty server at 127.0.0.1 is proudly and unabashedly serving files to the entire 192.168.1.1/256 network.

Re:Unreliable stats

[Polo]

In related news, job attendance dropped 20% compared to the previous week.

Or,

[missing000]

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

Re:Or,

[jafac]

I'm down with OPN. (Other People's Networks).

I'm sorry

[Roofus]

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.

Re:Heres the REAL news. File sharing traffic goes

[Lord_Slepnir]

From that article: Weiss said the recording industry should lobby for special taxes on CD burners and Internet access

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!

It's my fault the sharing dropped

[ShieldW0lf]

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.