File Trading up 10% or Down 15%?

I guess it all depends on whom you ask. Recently, two reports were released that display contradicting results regarding that activity known as file trading. In both cases, the authors/statisticians were looking to see if threats made by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) to sue individual file traders had any affect on the habits of millions of Americans who swap songs on the Net. One claims trading went up after the threat, the other says it went down.