How Many 'Significant Blows' Against File Sharing Will It Take For File Sharing To Actually Decrease?

from the we're-still-waiting... dept

Back in 2006, we started noticing how every raid or every legal win against some sort of file sharing operation resulted in the RIAA, MPAA or equivalent organization coming out with a statement about how this was "a significant blow" against unauthorized file sharing (they normally used this misleading or incorrect terms "piracy" or "theft"). But, we were beginning to wonder, just how many "significant blows" does it take to make a difference? Since then, there have been many, many, many such claims of "significant blows" and absolutely no evidence that it has had any impact whatsoever.

TorrentFreak is noting that a bunch of sites that were recently raided or lost lawsuits all seemed to bounce back within days, which really seems to highlight that for all of these "significant blows" -- it doesn't appear that the word "significant" really means what the entertainment industry appears to think it means....

Filed Under: denial, file sharing, significant blow

How The RIAA/MPAA Helped Catapult The Pirate Bay Into Being One Of The World's Most Popular Sites

from the nice-work,-guys dept

It's been almost exactly two years since the entertainment industry had the US government push Swedish officials into shutting down The Pirate Bay. At the time, entertainment officials went on and on about what a "significant blow" the takedown was against all those folks using the site for unauthorized copies of entertainment content. Of course, as we all know, the site was back up within days -- and thanks to all the media attention about the raid and the takedown, the site's traffic shot upwards to the point that it's now considered to be one of the top 100 sites in terms of traffic. Quite a "significant blow," huh?

Filed Under: bittorrent, file sharing, significant blow
Companies: mpaa, pirate bay, riaa

Danish Block Of The Pirate Bay Leads To Even More Traffic

from the nice-publicity-stunt,-IFPI dept

We've noted in the past that every time the RIAA or the IFPI scores a "significant blow" against an operation they accuse of piracy, it only seems to drive more attention to those sites. That appears to be happening once again. Since the IFPI convinced a Danish court to block users from accessing the Pirate Bay, traffic from Denmark to the Pirate Bay has actually increased, thanks mainly to the news coverage of the story. So, for such a significant blow, it appears that all the IFPI has succeeded in doing is providing free advertising for the Pirate Bay.

Filed Under: denmark, ifpi, pirate bay, significant blow, streisand effect
Companies: ifpi, pirate bay, tele2