File-sharing grows despite lawsuits: neener neener neener

Cory Doctorow 11:51 pm Mon Oct 25, 2004

Yet another study has confirmed that the RIAA's plan to stop file-sharing by suing thousands of fans has failed. Maybe they just haven't sued enough of us. There are about 70MM file-sharers in the US — maybe once the studios have bankrupted, say, 35 million of us we'll get the message.

"We wanted to examine the truthfulness of reports claiming declining P2P traffic and help the community make reliable assumptions concerning P2P traffic estimates and trends," wrote Thomas Karagiannis, a doctoral candidate in computer science at UC-Riverside, in an e-mail. "The assertion of declining P2P traffic was in direct contrast to the constant increase of P2P activity over the last year and counterintuitive to the fact that P2P applications are still the top most downloaded applications (on) the internet."

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