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Pew Study Says RIAA Tactics Are Working

Posted by michael on from the you're-downloading-communism dept.

Furd writes "The Pew Internet & American Life Project has posted a new data study that purports to show that the RIAA lawsuit strategy has successfully reduced P2P filesharing. While the presentation of the data is weak (poor graphics and weak statistics), the report does suggest that there has been a change in the usage of P2P tools."

6 of 399 comments (clear)

  1. New stuff is garbage by fsandford · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats because we have all the good songs on our hard drives already, nothing new lately is worth trading.

  2. Re:It worked for me by ultrapenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I feel sorry for you poor folks thinking lossless music sounds good; I've moved on.

    You must have really damn good ears if lossless music "doesnt sound good to you", sir.

  3. Yeah.... by Erik+Hollensbe · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're just all using the newsgroups now.

  4. Slight correction: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    But the p2p hydra has many heads.

    I've seen the videos you're talking about, but those are really more prehensile phalluses with mouths.

    Be careful what you search for, you just might find it.

  5. Re:It worked for me by stinkyelf · · Score: 2, Funny

    no matter how lossless a recording of [insert name of boy band here] it still sounds fucking awful to me ;)

  6. Pew by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny


    I have results to share from my own "pew" study... it concludes that the RIAA's tactics STINK.