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How Litigation Only Spurred On P2P File Sharing

Posted by timothy on from the perverse-incentives dept.

littlekorea writes "The growth in peer-to-peer file sharing surged in response to efforts by the content industry to litigate over the past decade, according to a new study by a researcher at Melbourne's Monash University. Dr Rebecca Giblin explains why 'physical world' assumptions don't apply to the online world."

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  1. Re:But this is not working. by Pieroxy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The threat of litigation is not stopping anyone from downloading

    There, fixed it for you.

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