Music sites caving to pressure from labels?

A week after the RIAA sent out "cease and desist" letters, WinMX.com ceases operating.

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Edonkey

It seems that Edonkey hasn't shut down.
I tried winmx and they seem to be gone, but edonkey seems to be up and running still.

Might want to check sites before listing them as shut down

[samtheman2212]

Learn To read

And maybe you should read the story again.

"New York OFFICE of another, eDonkey.com, appeared to be
closed"

Nowhere does it say that the site is down.

[davebarnes]

So far, the best is still up

Surf to www.allofmp3.com and buy music for $0.10 USD per song.

[Juster444]

Is this a legit site?

allofmp3.com is a Russian website. I totally agree that $0.10 per song is the best way to go for the music labels because I think it would eliminate most piracy. But How does allofmp3.com get to sell music for such an inexpensive price? The new Dave Matthews album is $1.59 for the entire album. It sounds too god to be true and I wouldn't take a chance on giving my credit card number to a Russian website. They offer no explaination of how they get to sell copyrighted music for around 1/10th of what U.S. websites are selling it for.

[Dilcue]

And this changes what?

It seems to me that the RIAA is still under the impression that sending out Cease and Desist letters and forcing illegal P2P filesharing companies to fold will eventually put an end to filesharing. History tends to repeat itself. For example, several years ago after Charmin Industries gave up Kazaa, a virtually unknown third-party created K-Lite++ which continued the original Kazaa legacy of free illegal music. Point being, regardless of how many recognized illegal filesharing companies are shut down, there is always someone who "fight the power" and continue on a fallen p2p client (if it's worth it). As for eDonkey, too many clients (Shareaza, aMule, eMule) connect to their network, there will most likely be network continuity regardless of if/when eDonkey closes all their offices.

P2P won't go away

The RIAA is fighting a war in which they won't be able to keep up. File sharing techniques continue to morph and move on, such as with IRC.

And if you think the RIAA is going to advocate low prices for legal downloads, think again. There have been numerous articles here on Cnet on the subject of the recording industry wanting upwards of $4.00 per song. Check out the article from earlier this week that talks about Steve Jobs criticizing the record companies for trying to force iTunes to charge higher prices.

The bottom line is that as they become more and more litigious, and try to drive download prices even higher, they risk a huge consumer backlash. BTW, the MPAA is in the same boat. A rational direction would be to put most of the dollars spent on legal proceedings towards a massive marketing campaign supporting iTunes and ilk. But then we're talking about a greed infested industry that clearly does not want to adapt.

[Christopher Hall]

Neither did moonshining

But you don't see that being a massive market force these days.

[Jonathan]

*shrugs* And when encrypted, anonymous P2P arrives?

Its already on the radar. There are several networks out there now that do encrypted..anonymous P2P. The MPAA and RIAA are both living on borrowed time.

Beep....beep....beep....beep....BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

Call it. RIAA dead at 3-15-2010 2PM CST. Cause of death? Greed and the inability to adapt to consumer pressure.

Peer2Link will take over P2P

The RIAA will not win this battle. There will always be another way to share files considering the millions of people that take part in this activity. Already people are using p2l or peer2link (www.peer2link.com) that work using sites such as megaupload.com or yousendit.com. Once the user uploads the file, they receive a link which they can post on peer2link.com. Anyone that visits peer2link.com can download the file with ease. It seems that the RIAA is forgetting that business models DO change, and they need to learn to adapt. Come on, look at how well itunes.com is doing!

Peer2Link is the next generation music and video supplier....

I also believe in Peer2Link to be the future in music/video uploads and downloads. Eventually, all of the P2P sites are going under. With Peer2Link, no one is liable for downloading, and it is just as easy, if not easier than P2P. I give two thumbs up for Peer2Link.

[Bill Dautrive]

RIAA still doesn't get it

The reason music and movie profits are down is because it is simply not worth buying. Low quality equals low sales.

Make uncompressed high quality song files available for a reasonable price, no more then $1.00, and stop the stormtrooper tactics and you might be able to recover.

It is ironic how greed often causes a person or company to make less money then if they acted ethically and in their customers best interests.

Peer2Link

What are your opinions on peer2link? Where people basically trade links to files on a forum?

[mercuryrising]

How are they going to stop that ???

I was reading the latest edition of News week and they said that RIAA has won the battle against file sharing . Are their reporters ill-informed.... ?

[mercuryrising]

and also

Also ,

They are retooling the operations.The product include the bands like "Gorillaz" :))))))) to help their revival