p2pnet.net News:- In what must be a record, of sorts, the mainstream media are still leading with the Big Music cartel’s latest outrage - its plans to sue 405 students it says use the high-speed Internet2 i2hub for p2p file sharing.

But once again, the lack of superlatives to give headlines a distinctly negative spin is in marked contrast to what’s gone before.

Internet2 is higher-tech version of regular Internet, says USA Today, Hollywood - sues Internet2 highspeed downloaders, says Boersenreport, Germany and Record industry sues 400 campus downloaders, says VNUNet.com.

Spearheading the cartel’s attack is its RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) with the major movie studios’ MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) right behind it.

The entertainment industry, whose record label and movie segments are reporting eye-popping revenues, claims file sharing is devastating its businesses and causing huge losses and tremendous hardships for support workers.

Close to 10,000 people have been subpoenaed to date, but not one so-called p2p file sharing case has been through a civil court and no one has been found guilty of sharing files, which is not a crime or even a minor civil offense.

And while the studio and label cartels paint innocent men, women and children as hard-core villains, high-tech crooks continue to ring up vast, illicit profits supplied, as always, by the industry itself which turns out billions of CDs and DVDs used as templates for blackmarket product.

The 21st century is the digital century and it thrives on digital, not physical, distribution. P2p and decentralized digital file transfers are a primary mode of delivery, a reality the record labels and movie studios insist on ignoring, at the cost of not only the people it’s trying to sue into buying over-priced cookie-cutter product, but its investors.

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See:-
i2hub - i2hub: Movies in minutes, p2pnet, November 19, 2004
p2p file sharing - Hollywood goes after students, p2pnet, April 14, 2005
right behind it - RIAA, MPAA blitz US students, p2pnet, April 13, 2005

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