nielsen, whose paying clients include every one of the old line media companies, has been inextricably linked to the media conglomerates for generations, and should be regarded with skepticism during this time, as should anyone using trend extrapolations and statistical samplings to estimate any p2p user bases. for instance bigchampange has come under fire for making file popularity claims in the past and refusing to allow their methodologies to be peer reviewed. there are incompetents and worse making grandiose statements and many have absolutely nothing in the way of empirical data to back them up.
it’s not like we didn’t see this coming, that’s why this thread exists; to counter what is certainly a major misinformation campaign designed to obscure the failures of the industry’s attempts to marginalize and criminalize users of file sharing programs.
the fact is that people are trading and sharing files as never before. the networks are filled with millions of users sharing billions of files. fyi, here are this afternoons 2 pm fasttrack user numbers, as healthy as ever.
no one ever has to take anyone’s word for this, just log on and download a file or two – and see for yourself.
- js.
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