The NPD Group reported earlier this week that P2P piracy in the United States declined significantly in 2010. The market research firm said that the rate of users sharing pirated content on P2P networks dropped to 9 percent during 2010, down from 16 percent reported in 2007. This is a dramatic reversal in the trend of increasing Internet piracy over the last few years. NPD argues that ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by shortybob:Never fear, for where one falls another 2 or 3 more is sure to take its place. It's an almost certainty.
A good pirate would've barely noticed that Limewire was even down
Originally posted by Mrguss:Afterdawn posted that news a long ass time ago..search is your friend
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Originally posted by statomike:Yes, you are right. The article is full of sh1t! I do believe piracy has seen better days but it will continue as long as media sells its product at unfair prices. A large portion of the pirates have stopped just because they want to quit while they are ahead. Every thing was wide open for years.
They might have shown an immediate drop, but there's no reason to doubt that those limewire users have found a replacement by now. All these articles about that study are just hype.
The sad thing is that this shallow and poorly analyzed hype is used to justify anti-piracy groups currently going for domains and the gnutella network.
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