P2P File Swapping on the Rise Again?

asdf 101 writes "News.com reports today that 'After six months of declines, peer-to-peer usage recently climbed 14 percent.' Their bottomline: 'The decline came as the RIAA launched more than 300 lawsuits against file swappers. The reversal cast doubts on the music industry's claims that its lawsuits are working to deter people from illegally downloading music files.' I guess wake_up_and_smell_the_coffee time just gets that much more imminent for all the hacks at RIAA." There's also an AP story, and you might want to review this story from just a few weeks ago that has different conclusions.

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Re:What?! You mean

[aardvarkjoe]

Despite the fact that apparently five moderators were duped into calling this insightful, if anyone had bothered to read the story (or all the similar stories over the last week -- slashdot is becoming a slow and poorly edited version of google news) they would note that music swapping increased during the final months of the year, not decreased, and it has been hypothesized that this has to do with increased interest in music as Christmas approaches.

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