P2P Music Sharing Remains Popular Despite RIAA

KarmaOverDogma writes "The New York Times reports that the RIAA's attempts to cut down on (music) file sharing are slow to show any effect, as much of the public still considers the activity to be useful and/or acceptable. P2P filesharing activity has decreased very little since they began their end-user legal campaign."

Comments

It should be legal

[glenrm]

To Share Files from any Artist who has advocated Anarchy, Anti-Capitalism, Theft, Attacking the Police, or Attacking the Government.

The law has nothing to do with morality.

[HanzoSan]

And this is why people will not stop sharing files. Their morals or belief system says its morally right to share, in this situation nothing is lost when they share files so why not?

Just because YOU don't support the law, that doesn't mean that you have a blank check to defy it. If we defied all the laws we didn't like, it wouldn't be much of a civilization, would it?

The only way to change laws in this country is to defy them. It worked for alcohol, at one point alcohol was illegal, it worked for porn too, porn was illegal at one point.

Re:Criminality?

[Kierthos]

Sorry, but if you commit a crime but don't get caught, it doesn't nullify the fact that you committed a crime. Sure, you're not getting punished for it, which seems to be the important part, but a crime was still committed.

Likewise, you're still infringing on copywritten materials if you download mp3s through the p2p-du-jour... but as long as the RIAA hasn't sued you yet, you don't have that personal and up close feeling of punishment in the form of a hefty fine.

Kierthos