Spim is on the rise
p2pnet.net News:- Unsolicited commercial instant messages – spim – will triple from 400 million messages in 2003 to 1.2 billion messages in 2004, says the Radicati Group, a technology market-research firm.
Ferris Research, puts the spim count at 500 million for 2003. And Yankee Group estimates that 5% to 8% of corporate IMs are spim, says InformationWeek story here.
A rose is still a rose by any other name, and spim is just spam on an other application and interestingly, the music industry has chosen instant messaging as one of its primary weapons against people it suspects of sharing Big Five record label ‘product’ online without the labels’ permission.
Through their enforcement organs such as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association, the Big Five have fired off millions of threatening instant messages to anyone and everyone they think may share digital music files through p2p networks, or who’s thinking of doing so. And their BPI ( British Phonograph Industry) has just announced plans to start doing the same.
Chairman Peter Jamieson says the Big Music enforcement unit will start sending out ‘instant messaging’ threats “warning uploaders that they face court action if they don’t disable file-sharing software on their computers”.
Similar efforts in North America have had little impact on file sharing.
April 1st, 2004 at 7:06 pm
Well why should this be any surprise? They are already doing that on Kazaa so most users are smart and disable the IM’s in the app. Ares/Warez has the same option. The damn RIAA will never learn that we don’t believe their lies anymore. Especially when a well known and respected school like Harvard has a case study that proves contrary to the big 5 labels claims. Legit or not people will use p2p and I sure hope there will be enough jail space to hold all those 60,000,000 people who use filesharing software.
Voodoohippie