In contrast to the positive spin the recording industry is placing on its antipiracy initiatives, Frost & Sullivan analyst Mukul Krishna said he thinks the RIAA and the Justice Department seemed to have lost a lot of the momentum generated by the Grokster ruling. As a result, he said, a growing number of people have started going back to P2P services.
A year ago, when the Supreme Court ruled against Grokster and gave the recording and motion picture industries greater power to sue over illegally shared copyrighted music and movies, file-sharing software seemed destined for the recycle bin.
The recording industry claimed at the time that the decision laid the groundwork for the dawn of a new era. “We will no longer have to compete with thieves in the night whose businesses are built on larceny,” proclaimed Sony BMG CEO Andrew Lack.
Yet one year after the Supreme Court’s decision, file-sharing networks are alive and well, and statistics show their membership is growing.
It really is inevitable getting free music even easier than the pay scernarios is always going to be the best option. When are they going to realise the advantages of P2P and start using that to broadcast there pay-for-music. Nobody is going to trade P2P for normal downloads especially when the cost of a song is 99c. I would pay for a song if it was 10c no more than that.
I apologise if my spelling sucks I’m in work and there is no spell check on this computer LOL!