Comments on: Week in review: Swapping on the ropes

Recent court activity suggests that illegal song swapping may be facing its swan song.

Yeah, like anyone intelligent

uses major public distribution methods to gain access to music/movies/files/apps. It's called PRIVATE SERVERS.

No one who knows how to get around these nazi-like organizations uses kazaa or public torrent sites.

Swapping dead? I think not.

[Luke_Cage]

Smells like propaganda?!

The file swapping article sounds like spin to me. the drop in file sharing only reflects the fact that many major artists only released greatest hits albums this year. No one of top caliber even attempted a full blow release for this holiday season. RIAA counting victories in a market dip. watch what happens in the spring, when the artist with longevity hit with summer concerts on the horizon, numbers will return to normal. Plus downloading gets old quick when b-side artists and one hit wonders dominate the airwaves. It just becomes easier to buy for the legal sites for those singles.

[SeizeCTRL]

Complete BS!!!

30 songs will never be worth $22,500. The RIAA is no better than the Mafia. If anything, the court should have made her buy each one of the CD's for each of the 30 songs.

What about music and movies that are out of print? How do we go about getting those legally?

There are so many private torrent sites, private FTPs and private DirectConnect hubs... not to mention countless IRC servers, usenet etc... So many ways of getting copyrighted content other than the infamous KAZAA.

The MPAA / RIAA simply does not have the resources and manpower to constantly monitor the entire internet 24/7/365.

[Eskiegirl302]

I THINK YOUR RIGHT JOEY....I

Have been researching and studying up on torrents. I think I would like to try this, but to me, trying to figure out how it works is confusing to me. Do you download torrent software and then just download? How do you know which files you still need? and when you download all these, does the BT software connect them all so that you can then listen to the music? or am I way off base? I have found in my research just how these files travel, but not what to do with them. Any help would be appreciated.

Esk

[Bill Dautrive]

Ironic

It is ironic that thieves(MPAA, RIAA) are complaining about "theft" against them.

[bobby_brady]

Don't support the RIAA download from allofmp3 or p2p

RIAA is a pro-Nazi like organization.

[viperpa]

No matter how you butter it up

Even if this article is true, RIAA has seen no increase in sales. Infact they are still losing money. So the campaign of suing everyone is not working. It is only giving the RIAA and the musicians bad PR as we seen in Sony's case.

[unknown unknown]

Don't be so quick to declare a winner

As far as the number of filesharers go IDT says they're down while Big Champaign says the number are up. Let's not forget that it's hard to get an accurate picture for these decentralized networks.

Not only that...

But much filesharing these days would be via secured channels that are even less prone to observation. I would assume that illicit file-sharing is probably booming, it's only that those doing it have adapted faster than the music/movie industry.

Historically, no anti-piracy measure or campaign has had a positive effect for an industry. In the best case scenario, they've been ineffective, and in the worst case scenario they've alienated consumes (like Sony's DRM has done recently, or region codes on DVDs).