What they did not foresee was the springing up of decentralized as a direct result of that lawsuit action. Napster went under and up popped more file sharing sites than they knew how to handle. Every time they’ve been successful, it has created this responce. Wack-a-mole isn’t a sustainable model.

What they have been successful at is creating the worse public relations campaign and disaster imaginable. I won’t purchase big media’s offerings. I went on boycott when this sort of mentality started and will continue it for life if necessary without a qualm. I’m not the only one out there with this idea. If the thought that sue’em all is going to bring the masses back, I shudder to think of the idiots that run big media will do if they ever get into government offices.

Every case that is a sue’em all has friends. All those friends you can be sure know the situation that brought about the troubles for their friends. It’s so bad that the RIAA decided it could not stand the light of public display for lawsuits on the main pages of national media and instead went to local filings in hopes of some sort of damage control on negative publicity. All that has done has turned the people at the grass roots level against them. This will be far harder to recover from because of the negative publicity going down to the very most basic level of their customers. So sue a music lover, who ceases to ever buy again “product” and who will continue to bad mouth the industry for the rest of their lives as a walking advertisement recommending against doing business with them ever is an image I somehow fail to see as being of any benefit to big media. But I do see it as being like a hydra in spreading ill will and as a result continuing loss of sales at ever greater frequency.

Actually such technology is already there on the net. It is already fairly functional enven if few people are using them. And this is only the beginning!. Good luck for the RIAA rats to find out what it is shared and who is sharing. Also good luck to stop people from using these technologies since these applications can use any protocol and display any signature.

And as fare as trying to collapse existing p2p network by discouraging people form sharing with law suit, it will never work because the math indicate that you have to reduce the number of source by more than 98% to start decreasing availibility significantly.

They don’t say it but this is what they mean. Their problems is that the technology made them currently obsolete as distributor of music because the artist can distribute their music directly to the fan using internet. More and more artists are signing out of the 4 majors records company and either switch to indies or distribute their music themselves. And the preliminaries seem to indicate that this is working!

Since they show to us that they are a packs of low life parasites we as consumers are going to put them definitively out of business since many of us and in growing numbers decided not to feed these tapworms. You see we have the money and we decide who get it and who don’t.

I can not wait until they die and until we can rebuild a new music industry with good people trully concerned about art instead of money and BS marketing.

We know that when the dice are not piped money will folow automaticaly because it always did.

nice apartment, 100Mbit/sec connection and all the music you could ever want.
ofc your allowed to share your payed music with your friends too! and i have alot of friends!

sadly if your friends live in the US you will ruin their lives forever if you share music with them.. so forget having friendships and doing social activeties over the net with people from US… but hey you will have me! ;D

IMHO, the sue ‘em all campaign’s primary goal is to allow the Big 4 to gain total control of the Net as a distribution system for digital music downloads so they came ensure people by their ‘product,’ and only theirs.

They’ll never achieve that, of course. But they’re close to it offline and they want to get as near to it as they can online.

That’s the reality.

While I despise what the RIAA is doing with their laswuit campaign, I detect some FUD here too. The music industry is *not* saying “…who refuse to buy Big 4 ‘product,’ and only Big 4 product.” They are saying they don’t want you to *share* their music for free. They say nothing about sharing music that isn’t under their copyright, as it should be.

Big difference, don’t you think? If we’re to win this war against them, then spreading BS at our end will only hinder it even more.