Originally posted by Corbett:
Originally posted by KingpinSVT:
Right now Im doing some marketing work for RIAA. According to them, most of the major shareware sites will be shut down within the next 2 months or so. Reason being that the courts just ruled it acceptable for them to go after the software manufacturers, not just the people sharing the files. So, be prepared to start using sites like yahoo if you still want to download.
Do you really think that is going to stop illegal file sharing? It never has before. Look at napster. Did it die when they were shut down? No it got bigger. There are plenty of other ways to sahre music without the mainstream programs. IRC, FTP, BT to name a few.
OK, no, I dont think it will stop it completely. Will it knock out many of the middle to light users? Good chance.
DL sites will definitely stick around, but you said it yourself, they'll come back as paysites just like Napster did.
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