p2pnet news view |  Kids & Kartels:- A senior Big Four record label cartel spokesman has finally admitted the cartel has been lying about the success of its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing and sales campaign.

The likes of Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol and Cary ‘Scary’ Sherman, the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) two master truth adjustment specialists, claim efforts to sue customers into buying product are succeeding and that significant numbers of file sharers are deserting the p2p networks in favour of the grossly over-priced corporate sites and their lossy, low fidelity downloans and downloads.

“The level of file-sharing has remained the same for two years despite 20,000 legal cases in 17 countries,” says the BBC.

In fact, it’s risen, say new statistics from p2p research firm BigChampagne.

In America in December, 2005, on average, 6,978,715 people were simultaneously logged onto the p2p networks at any given time, it says.

In 2003, the number was 3,239,298, says the firm, which compiled statistics for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Information Technology Outlook report for 2004. By 2004, it was 5,500,314.

Globally, in December, 2003, 5,602,384 people were simultaneously logged on, in 2004 the number had swelled to 7,582,248 and in December, 2005, it was 9,554,298.

But the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industries), owned by cartel members Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI, said it’s “containing” the problem while more people are connecting to broadband.

Big Music was, “winning the war but we haven’t won the war” against “piracy”, the BBC has IFPI boss John Kennedy (upper right) saying.

“I would love to be sitting here telling you that it had gone down,” he said. “As broadband rolls out and as there’s an explosion in many countries of broadband, file-sharing is being contained.”

But, the BBC goes on, the industry was, “finding it difficult to persuade existing song-swappers to use legal download services such as iTunes instead”.

Music lovers who’ve, “got into the habit of consuming their music for free are very difficult to shift,” says Kennedy.

Also See:
BBC – File-sharing ‘not cut by courts’, January 19, 2006
new statistics – P2p file sharing is on the rise, January 11, 2006

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