Analysts Critical Of RIAA's Continued P2P Lawsuits

Acccording to Digital Msuic News, "Common wisdom says that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Following an aggressive legal move by the RIAA against several leading P2P applications, that could be the case once again for P2P file-sharing. "Every time they have a press release or there's news about it, the number of P2P users grows," Yankee Group Senior analyst Mike Goodman recently told TechNewsWorld. Statistics seem to agree. Monthly P2P traffic has almost tripled worldwide since the RIAA began initiating individual lawsuits in 2003. And the latest stab against operators could further that, part of what Goodman calls "the P2P marketing campaign."

GartnerG2 research director Mike McGuire voiced it another way. "It seems to be like trying to  manage Jell-O,"...From the perspective of the RIAA, the latest salvo was designed to eliminate some of the top services and entrepreneurs from the game, while also discouraging new entrants. But users are notorious for jumping from one service to another, opening the door to new entrants all of the time..."