httpshare to IFPI: Thanks! ;)
p2pnet news | P2P:- Italian – “Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG are busy, busy, using their IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) in one of their latest bully-boy tactics,” p2pnet posted last week, going on:
“They’re using to use their obscene financial and political clout to browbeat Israeli ISPs into blocking a torrent search site they don’t like.
“I order the respondents, that is Israeli internet service providers, to systematically block access to the illicit site, httpshare,” wrote Haifa District Court Justice Gideon Ginat in February, “so that surfers cannot enter this site and utilize it in in order to impede upon the claimants’ copy rights,” says YNet News.”
But it seems the IFPI onslaught is having an effect it hadn’t wanted or looked for.
As we’ve noted frequently, it wasn’t until 2003 when Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and their RIAA deciding to try to crush P2P file sharing that it became really popular.
Sharing MP3s online was until that point largely unknown to the general public.
Then the Big 4 let the world know what it was all about heavily via their bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign.
Soon, hundreds of millions of people were sharing music with each other, something the multi-billion-dollar labels claim is “devastating” them.
When someone shares a file with someone else, a sale is lost, they say. But they’ve never come even close to proving this obviously falacious statement.
Meanwhile, in much the same way the Big 4 told the world about Napster (the original, not today’s pale, corporate wannabe), the same thing is happening with httpshare.com.
“News,” says the site.
Over 70.000 Visitors per day, we upgraded our network
Big Thanks to IFPI Advertising
Definitely stay tuned to for the IFPI’s next move 
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Also See:
p2pnet – Big 4 labels try to stomp Israeli P2P site, March 6, 2008
YNet News – Internet providers ordered to block file sharing website, March 6, 2008
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