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DRM Content Drives Availability On P2P Networks

Posted by Soulskill on from the drm-p2p-mpaa-bbq dept.

jgreco writes "The music industry once feared that going DRM-free would drive a massive explosion of copyright-infringing music availability on P2P networks. Now, a new study seems to suggest otherwise. The answer is obvious: if you can easily get inexpensive DRM-free content that works on your devices through legitimate channels, most people won't bother with the headache of P2P networks. It appears that users largely turn to P2P to acquire DRM-free versions of content that is distributed with DRM. The MPAA, of course, will not come away from this with the obvious conclusion."

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  1. Re:A note about the study by westlake · · Score: 0, Troll

    Legit torrents, like Jamendo and Linux distributions, usually use their own trackers. So the study will naturally underrepresent legal BitTorrent content.

    Let's be realistic about this.

    The geek may download the nightly build more often than he changes his boxers or briefs.

    But you won't go far wrong in assuming that the DVD sized P2P download is a pirated game or a video.