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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.
I'd like to know how they take these statistics.
Do they just log in to Kazaa (or whatever is hot at present) and look at the number of people logged in, avaliable files, etc?
They probably don't realize there is a whole world of people using other means of sharing files, not to mention buying CDR compies from people on the street, or friends.
Colleges are going back into session. During finals week they went down because peoplem didn't have time. Now that they are back and the begining of the sysmester is light work load..