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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.
... put a tax of about 150% on media recordable materials.
Here, it is even cheaper to buy CDR and DVDR in Luxembourg (starting from 20 CDs even with shipping) due to these damn taxes
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Warez/MP3 archives, VCD/SVCDs, and MP3s converted to Audio CDs for the purpose of compatibility with older players probably make up a sizeable amount of CDR sales, particularly through non-office supply sources such as Walmart or Best Buy. Enough so that concomitant other indicators such as CD sales increasing, filesharing use decreasing, and survey results indicating concern about RIAA policy one can develop a clearer picture of the situation.
If our news agencies weren't so piss-poor at what they do nowadays this story would include more supporting factors or it wouldn't have been published.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
By that argument, one can't steal a credit card number, or any other information. Care to post your credit card number?