This weeks happenings have caused a few ripples in the userbase of many p2p applications, whats it all about ?
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1110It’s almost as if no one is listening to the RIAA – a perception that indeed is becoming more fact than theory.
This is a trend that may be difficult to reverse for the RIAA, as music file-sharing is vastly different than movie file-sharing. Mainstream individuals looking for music choose such networks as Gnutella or FastTrack. Like the RIAA’s lawsuit recipients, these methods are nameless, faceless, and without community. The demise or long term absence off the developer would go largely unnoticed by mainstream users. How many Kazaa users can articulate the details of Sharman Networks’ current legal battle?
Movie sharing is another ball game. Although not of vital importance, a significant number of movie sharers use indexing sites such as the ones mentioned in last week’s lawsuits. Because of their communal nature, it’s no big secret when MPAA enforcements go down. Razorback2 users didn’t need the latest CNN news flash, and the ISOHunt community knew about the lawsuits before the owners did.
The above quote is a small snippet that took my fancy from a much more interesting article
The MPAA/RIAA folks may hope to disrupt p2p in general at many levels but in this case are they hitting legitimate targets ?
Indexing servers do not actually hold any content and so I personally see no legitimacy in theses filings for court action.
I hope they are challenged and thrown out, of course the Cartel organisations would withdraw the case seconds before losing it as they have done in other cases that are then portrayed as not being lost, thats the joy of starting a law suit.
Meanwhile here on WinMX we are free to enjoy ourselves and wonder why folks still use centralised methods of filesharing
