RIAA v The People: Two Years Later

EFF release a report on the first two years of individual p2p prosecutions:

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/RIAAatTWO_FINAL.pdf


The legal attacks on P2P technologies were initially successful in the courts. But as it was winning the legal battles, the recording industry was losing the war. After Napster was shut down, new networks quickly appeared. Napster was replaced by Aimster and AudioGalaxy, which were then in turn supplanted by Morpheus and Kazaa, which were in turn eclipsed by eDonkey and Bit Torrent.7 The number of file sharers, as well as the number of P2P software applications, just kept growing, despite the recording industry’s early courtroom victories. More recently, music fans have been turning to new so-called “darknet” solutions, such as swapping iPods, burning CD-Rs, and modifying Apple’s iTunes software to permit direct downloading.