Interest in File Sharing at All Time High Article Link Article Link
Average Amount of Users online since January 2003
Results eDonkey and Gnutella gain users At least 9 million users online BitTorrent, WinMX, SoulSeek, the Ares/Warez P2P network, the Manolito P2P network, Shareaza, FileTopia and OpenFT not in the statistic Amount of users almost doubled in the last two years Maybe over 10 million users or more online
RIAARIAA sues RIAA Recording Industry Association of America sues P2P-users since September new claims this year Most cases settled out of court 3000$ $ compensation fees
Consequences? RIAA‘s efforts without results …yet yet Interest in filesharing will continue to grow Cooperation between music industry and filesharing portals possible Most users still don‘t consider downloading a crime
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