Music Sharing Decrease

[EmuFreak]

Supposedly Kazza users have gone down by 40 percent due to the RIAA starting to scare people, however I beleave that those people have gone to RIAA safe P2P services like earth station 5 LOL, read the whole story below.

Lawsuits launched against individuals for illegal file-sharing appear to have tempered activity on the more popular peer-to-peer networks, new U.S. research released this week shows.

Nielsen//NetRatings, which tracks Internet usage, said on Tuesday it found a 41 percent drop over the last three months in the audience for Kazaa.

On September 8, the Recording Industry Association of America, a group representing big labels like AOL Time Warner's Warner Music and Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, sued 261 people for illegal file-sharing.

"The RIAA is clearly sending a strong message to American Web users and the message appears to be working," said Greg Bloom, an analyst with Nielsen//NetRatings.

"With hundreds of individuals facing real lawsuits, the threat to music file-sharers is very serious," he said.

Since the week ending June 29, traffic to Kazaa has fallen 41 percent to about 3.9 million unique visitors from 6.5 million in the week ending September 21.

Traffic to Morpheus fell to 261,000 unique visitors in the week ending September 21 from 272,000 in the week ending June 29.

Meanwhile, the RIAA this week reached settlements with 64 people, including 12 with people not yet sued.

On Monday, several peer-to-peer networks unveiled a code of conduct to encourage responsible behavior among the millions of users and asked Congress to figure out a way record labels and other copyright holders can be reimbursed for the material traded online.

Meanwhile, other data released on Tuesday showed that as of August a vast majority of teens believed downloading music for free was morally acceptable.

The August 2003 Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing Youth Survey, a premium service offered by the Gallup organization, found 83 percent of 517 teens, aged 13 to 17, found downloading free music was morally acceptable.

Gallup officials noted the RIAA's lawsuits in September may have raised awareness of the issue.

"We have to be a little cautious in interpreting this, but it does show that off the top of their heads in August, the vast majority of teenagers said, 'Sure, why not? It's perfectly moral to download,"' said Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing.

"We do poll teenagers regularly and I think we'll use exactly the same question again soon and see if things have changed," he said.

Source http://www.zeropaid.com/

[van halen]

what's earth station 5?

[SniperWolf]

I also think it could be due to Kazaa-Lite's new feature that allows people to disable sharing entirely and people dont share as much now

[Kosmo Yagkoto]

Yeah i use Kazza-Lite and it works well but i am not going to download songs unless they are masterpieces.

[Gnafu the Great]

Originally posted by SniperWolf
I also think it could be due to Kazaa-Lite's new feature that allows people to disable sharing entirely and people dont share as much now

Regular Kazaa has always had a feature to block sharing. I've never shared through Kazaa in my life .

[Strongbad]

Originally posted by EmuFreak
Supposedly Kazza users have gone down by 40 percent due to the RIAA starting to scare people, however I beleave that those people have gone to RIAA safe P2P services like earth station 5 LOL, read the whole story below.

I don't think that this is true becuase i was watching tech t.v. last week and they did a special and it said that the amount of users actually increased because all of the students are going back to college. But thats just what they said.

[Kid Buu]

I would belive that. I think all the riaa is doing is giving it more fuel with all the press coverage the issue is getting.

[Wulf]

Some news sites had a story on Earth Station 5 being malware of some sort, so have caution if using it...

With that said, maybe everyone is moving to a <i>good</i> music p2p program, like soulseek.

[SniperWolf]

Originally posted by Gnafu the Great
Regular Kazaa has always had a feature to block sharing. I've never shared through Kazaa in my life .

Yes but ya had to do it manually and everytime ya downloaded a new song you would have to unshare it and if ya had lots of music this couuld be sometimes hard to remember which ones were shared and which wern't but now you can easily just unshare all them in the KaZaA lite options....

[van halen]

Originally posted by Starkwulf
Some news sites had a story on Earth Station 5 being malware of some sort, so have caution if using it...

With that said, maybe everyone is moving to a <i>good</i> music p2p program, like soulseek.

What's malware?

[LostAgain]

Personally, I've just not heard of anything worth downloading. So, I blame the crappy state of music (damn you MTV!). Maybe people are just tired of the whole thing. I know I am.


Leatherman, the word "distinguished" is mispelled in your Fight Club guild tag. Just thought I'd point it out as "distiguished" looks a little odd.

[ozone]

I've never used kaazaaa.Me friend wordsworth says it's cool.

[Cosmic]

Originally posted by van halen
What's malware?

I'm guessing it's short for malicious software. Kinda like spyware, except more dangerous in that they can use your details for monitoring you.