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Per the NY TIMES:
The number of people swapping music files online has dropped by half, and the number of people downloading files on any given day has dropped 75 percent since the middle of last year, according to a report to be released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Last September is when the Recording Industry Association of America started suing people accused of making large numbers of songs available for downloading.“Clearly, the R.I.A.A. suits were a watershed moment for the downloading community,” the director of the Pew Internet project, Lee Rainie, said, referring to the lawsuits by the recording association.
File sharing is fun, and will doubtless continue in some useful form. But copyright must be protected for us to have a healthy music business.
