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...addition to the suits filed against college students, the RIAA press release also stated that new suits were filed against an additional 649 individuals who were illegally distributing copyrighted music via unauthorized peer-to-peer services like KaZaa, LimeWire, and Grokster...
...don’t think this is true. I think the reason so many people share files over the Internet with blatant disregard for the law is because they’re unable to internalize the reasons why these things are illegal. Downloading copyrighted recordings off Kazaa is too easy—too much a natural extension of the rest of our uses for the Internet and too far removed from any plausible impact on music industry sales (50 Cent probably isn’t starving). Hard as the RIAA might try, their ad campaign and their well-publicized lawsuits...
...rise of the MP3. The result is a nation of bitter consumers, depressed music sales, and rampant illegal file sharing. There is an iTunes service that, while successful, would have been immeasurably more successful had it been activated years earlier—before the spread of illicit services like Kazaa and Limewire. As it turned out, the recording industry was damaged by its own draconian devices...
...fair, Wirehog is not the only game in town for illegally trading music and movies. There are the old classics like KaZaA, and then there are newer entrants into the playing field, such as bittorrent—which, certain studies have suggested, may currently be responsible for something like 30 percent of all traffic on the Internet...
People tend to understand and accept the parts of the copyright law that make sense to them. And we tend to behave in ways we think it’s unlikely will get us into trouble. I would argue that as long as finding KaZaA users to sue remains as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, industry executives will probably not turn their efforts towards cracking down on college iTunes users or even Wirehog, unless they feel they can sue Apple or Mark Zuckerberg and get the software itself removed from the market...