No, this is not Britney Spears' latest song, but history repeats itself again. 🙁
This article was published in The Inquirer today (Thanks Quema34 🙂 ):
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The ED2K network does not have a single group of centrally-run servers that can be shut down, and there are multiple clients that can connect to it, most famously the 5-year old open sauce EMule, hosted on SourceForge, so I was sceptical as to how well this block would work. Having googled Emule and downloaded the latest version (0.47c), I fired up the program which quickly found around 150 active servers, and connected to "Big Bang", an ED2K host with multiple servers and a website proudly shouting about their business. So had the RIAA closure had an effect? |
What an interesting question... Apart from the RIAA getting another settlement,, what is the real effect of all this? File sharing systems are still alive...
The only thing that is obtained by all this, is to create more noise and to misinform. I'm really curious to know the reason why these people can't understand there is only one way to eliminate piracy: to lower prices!
Is it so difficult to understand that people don't want to pay more than 20 euro for a disc that (very) often contains only one or two interesting songs? How many times have you bought a disc in which there is only a song you like?
Another way to create problems to end-consumers, is represented by latest copy-protections stuff. The only thing that these mechanisms create is the almost impossibility for the legitimate owner to use just bought discs. In fact, many players refuse to read these discs. And major labels still wonder why people try to find stuff in P2P circuits?
Source: The Inquirer
