Are File Swappers Whimps?

[leebo]

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5066632.html?tag=cd_mh

The RIAA is trying to make everyone believe it's bullying is working.
I suspect it's BS, but you never know.

AFAIK, they're only going after people in the States, so I'm mostly interested in what you guys think. But everyone is welcome to respond, and it would be great if you identify what country you're in.

[housepig]

Although NPD said it couldn't make a direct link between the sharp drop in file swapping in May and the RIAA's legal battles, the connection seemed more than coincidental.

"While we can't say categorically that the RIAA's legal efforts are the sole cause for the reduction in file acquisition, it appears to be more than just a natural seasonal decline," Russ Crupnick, a vice president at NPD, said in a statement. "This decrease is sharper than the declines we're seeing in the offline retail world."

"While we can't say categorically that our feather-bedecked dance around the fire last night is the sole cause of the rain that fell this morning, geez we'd sure like to think so."

we'll see what happens with KaZaa, et al., after Labor Day when school is back in session....

personally, I won't care until the MPAA comes out against it... oh wait! I won't care then either, because pron films aren't covered by the MPAA!!

[mysticgohan17]

personally, I won't care until the MPAA comes out against it... oh wait! I won't care then either, because pron films aren't covered by the MPAA!!

in the immortal words of Quagmire from Family Guy "Alright!"

[The village idiot]

If it does anything, it will just cause people to be more educated thieves. There are still many other ways of doing it. You just have to get past the AOL mentality. Not that I want to advocate theft, or suggest that there are better ways to accomplish your thievery.

Now that I have all my CD's ripped down, I have little need to download music. I'll just buy the disk, then if I have a hard drive crash I can recover. For a while, I found that it was faster to download the music than to rip it. Or at least I could download while I slept, it's difficult to rip disks while sleeping. But now all that stuff has been replaced with ripped stuff.

[sterno]

You know, there's another possibility. Maybe file sharing is declining because most recent music and movies aren't even worth stealing.

[mysticgohan17]

You know, there's another possibility. Maybe file sharing is declining because most recent music and movies aren't even worth stealing.

everyone has said that in every thread regarding this and other similar subjects. its fairly old, but relevant information.

[zzyzzx]

[The village idiot]

Funny

You think kittenhate will pick up that slogan?