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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."

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  1. Pew..... by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pew is right...those results STINK

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  2. Disinformation for the masses by felonious · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's all it is but with the news of lawsuits and things of that nature common sense dictates that people haven't stopped...they have all just moved to the 3rd tier of underground.

    Mainstream Tier (Leaves out user friendly gui's, freenet, gnutella, and others I won't list as I'm not helping the enema...errr...I mean enemy)

    1st Tier - Store Bought Cd's
    2nd Tier - Napster
    3rd Tier - Kazaa
    4th Tier - Too many to list plus I'm not helping those pussies out.

    Pretty simple.
    RIAA (TRIES) to raise the bar
    The public goes further underground and averts being caught.
    The majority of people are a step a head and the RIAA is a step behind.
    The RIAA thinks they are being pro-active when in fact they are re-active.

    You can't beat what you do not understand and you can't stop the future.
    Period.
    RIAA = Pathetic existense and they only get through to the people who use those AOL cd's they get in magazines.

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