The war against piracy not that succesful
Sneaky Sharing
Where has all the good illegal peer-to-peer action gone? Underground. In some cases, waaaaay underground. Fearful of reprisals from the major entertainment companies and worried about virus-laden, corrupted, or spoofed files, many users are shying away from the big-name file-sharing networks like Kazaa and WinMX, and have gone straight, buying their music and video from legal sources. That's a win for Hollywood. Have users really reformed? Not really: Many are flocking to smaller P-to-P networks like BitTorrent, EDonkey, and EMule. According to ComScore, BitTorrent nearly doubled in users, from about 200,000 to more than 400,000 between November 2003 and May 2004; EMule grew from under 100,000 users in February 2003 to nearly 300,000 a year later. EDonkey, which ComScore did not track in its survey, has made even bigger gains, says Garland. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117637,00.asp |
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