p2pnet - rss feed: p2p file sharing is on the rise
p2p news / p2pnet: Organized Music’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) would have you believe its sue ‘em all campaign is making a significant impact on the file sharing scene and the p2p community, and that as a direct result, business for the sites supplied and supported by the cartels is improving dramatically.
However, as p2pnet has been reporting consistently, there is no significant corporate online music business and although the IFPI claims there are 300 sites doing good business, only three are ever mentioned - the much-hyped iTunes, RealNetworks and Napster.
The latter two, though, are barely breaking even, to paint the brightest possible picture for them: they’re certainly not prospering and in truth, iTunes is the only one that’s doing anything - 600 million downloads since it went online in 2003, says Apple.
But even if that figure is accurate, iTunes is still a promotional vehicle for iPod, not a genuine music service whose raison d’etre is to sell music to the online public
We’ve been relying on BigChampagne for our statistics and on the left is the latest BC chart showing the p2p stats from November, 2003, until November this year.
They indicate the number of people around the world who were simultaneously logged onto one or more the p2p networks at any given time.
Go here if you want the Excel chart on which the table in the left is based.
‘Ah,’ you say, ‘But that’s around the world. The RIAA has been suing thousands of people in the US and there, the sue ‘em all marketing scheme is making a huge difference.’
Not so.
One again, the number of people sharing files on the p2p networks in America is rising, and doing so very noticably.
In the US in November, 2003, on average, 2,498,431 were logged on t the same time at any given point in the day or night.
By November, 2004, on average, 5,445,275 people were online at any one time.
And by November this year, the number had risen to 6,530,408.
Tired of being treated like a criminal? They depend on you, not the other way around. Don’t buy their ‘product’ for Christmas or at any other time. Do bug your local political representatives. Use emails, snail-mail, phone calls, faxes, IM, stop them in the street, blog. And if you’re into organizing, organize petitions, organize demonstrations and then turn up on your local political rep’s doorstep, making sure you’ve contacted your local tv/radio station/newspaper in advance.
December 21st, 2005 at 9:59 am
because, media talked too much and now old granny and granpa knows how to get connected to P2P network!
Too much shout causes too much attention!
December 22nd, 2005 at 5:08 am
The RIAA must use the same accountants as the US government, that say all is great even though unemployment, bankruptcy, debt, inflation, etc. is skyrocketing. It’s all lies to hide the fact that the country’s run by complete & utter fools.