EFF declares music download suits a failure

EFF declares music download suits a failure

Tom Warren on 30 August 2007 - 08:01 · 11 comments & 6822 views

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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) policy of suing users caught downloading music illegally has done nothing to slow the trade of copyrighted music on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

"The lawsuit campaign has enriched only lawyers, rather than compensating artists for file sharing," the EFF declared in a 25-page report.

"One thing has become clear: suing music fans is no answer to the P2P dilemma."

The EFF claims that since the RIAA began suing individual users, traffic on P2P file-sharing services has ballooned from 3.3m monthly users in August of 2003 to more than 8.8m by June of 2005.

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#1 SwitchBlade on 30 Aug 2007 - 08:17

Anyone who beleives what the RIAA is going is right, needs to be boiled alive in their own urine.

(1 reply) #2 JoeC on 30 Aug 2007 - 08:25

"The lawsuit campaign has enriched only lawyers"

Weird... I could have sworn I've heard this all over the Internet for the past ... how long?

#2.1 exotoxic on 30 Aug 2007 - 16:38

they forgot to mention the people that work at the RIAA

#3 whocares78 on 30 Aug 2007 - 08:29

LMAO too funny and they only just realised this

#4 devHead on 30 Aug 2007 - 11:56

The Surgeon General also recently released information that shows just how dangerous cigarette smoking is!

It's good to know there are plenty of people out there with a strong grasp of the obvious.

#5 avidracer on 30 Aug 2007 - 19:04

they needed a 25 page report to understand this?

#6 Kushan on 30 Aug 2007 - 20:55

What they said ^

#7 ghos on 30 Aug 2007 - 23:34

Yup they still don't get it. We want to buy music, but we want it accessible. Not stuck up in DRM hell. Plus a lot of music I want isn't easy to find because of Walmart. There aren't many real music stores that store a good variety at a decent price. You can only get a good price if Walmart decides to carry it.
I could buy online but its not that quick since I grew up getting to listen to my stuff when I got home kinda thing. I'm not crazy about downloading music since I do not have the original CD and am stuck then with however the place decided to encode even if it isn't loaded with DRM.

The RIAA hasn't learned that if you treat everyone like thieves we might as well be thieves. They have never been pro-consumer, and say they are doing it for the artists but that is obviously not the case either. They need to be replaced, but like that is ever going to happen.

#8 +ozzieXP on 31 Aug 2007 - 00:21

took them a while to know it hasn't and wont work.. how about lower those freaking prices? do they wonder why allofmp3.com was so popular?

(1 reply) #9 whocares78 on 31 Aug 2007 - 01:44

I always love the doign it for the artist crap, if they wanted the artists to make money they woudln't take it all off them and give them jack of the CD profits, most bands only really make any money from touring

#9.1 black_death on 31 Aug 2007 - 03:10

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