p2pnet.net News:- Police in Finland are among the latest international law forces to agree to act for the Big Music cartel in its bid to gain total control of how music is distributed online, and by whom..

Suomen Ääni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat (ÄKT, the Finnish branch of IFPI) has, “sent police requests for investigations of 28 individuals who they would like to see brought to justice for net piracy through the peer-to-peer file sharing networks,” says Helsingin Sanomat, going on:

ÄKT wants prosecutions brought against persons who have been spreading music through file sharing applications such as BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, and eMule.

The cartel`s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) has just filed 963 lawsuits in 11 countries in Europe and Asia and this represents, the first concerted Finnish involvement in an extensive international operation, says the story.

The entertainment industry’s MPAA and RIAA are similarly out of control in North America and in the UK, the cartel-owned BPI is after another 33 people. Expect more of the same from elsewhere.

But it’s for nought and all the entertaiment industry is really doing is to build an enormous tsunami of consumer anger and ill-will which will eventually engulf it.

Because p2p and file sharing are here to stay.

In March, 2004, the average number of p2p users online at any given moment around the world was 7,370,644, says p2p research firm Big Champagne. But by March this year, the number had risen to 8,282,986.

In America, in March, 2004, an average of 4,603,571 people were on the p2p networks at any given moment but this number had rocketed to 6,016,247 by March, 2005.

But IFPI boss John Kennedy says disingenuously, “File-sharing is being contained: traffic on P2P networks which would have spiralled out of control a year ago has, in fact, began to slow down.”

(Thanks, Luftwaffe. As you say, Sad, very sad.”)

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See:-
ÄKT – Finnish authorities gear up for strikes against peer-to-peer file sharing networks, April 14, 2005
963 lawsuits – Big Music cartel sues 11,552, p2pnet, April 12, 2005
out of control – RIAA, MPAA blitz US students, p2pnet, April 13, 2005

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