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P2P piracy drops significantly following LimeWire shut down

article published on 27 March, 2011

The NPD Group reported earlier this week that P2P piracy in the United States declined significantly in 2010. The market research firm said that the rate of users sharing pirated content on P2P networks dropped to 9 percent during 2010, down from 16 percent reported in 2007. This is a dramatic reversal in the trend of increasing Internet piracy over the last few years. NPD argues that ... [ read the full article ]

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shortybob
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_ 		27. March 2011 @ 20:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A good pirate would've barely noticed that Limewire was even down
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blueboy09
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_ 		27. March 2011 @ 20:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by shortybob:
 A good pirate would've barely noticed that Limewire was even down
Never fear, for where one falls another 2 or 3 more is sure to take its place. It's an almost certainty.
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JGJD2001
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_ 		27. March 2011 @ 20:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
a good pirate will use google and youtube.
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hikaricor
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_ 		27. March 2011 @ 20:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A good pirate uses ******.
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statomike
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_ 		27. March 2011 @ 21:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They might have shown an immediate drop, but there's no reason to doubt that those limewire users have found a replacement by now. All these articles about that study are just hype.

The sad thing is that this shallow and poorly analyzed hype is used to justify anti-piracy groups currently going for domains and the gnutella network.
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Mrguss
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_ 		28. March 2011 @ 03:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In Other News:
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_ 		28. March 2011 @ 11:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess options are not the reason, I personally have stop illegal downloads since Netflix and hulu are making media much more accessible, Pandora and slaker are taking care of my music needs


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Mysttic
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_ 		28. March 2011 @ 13:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Its also possible that a lot of these users on limewire were directed there through word of mouth, because of its simplicity of use similar to Kazaa and Napster. All those lost sheep now, having to resort to another similar proggy, and that's of course they can get directed to one. This report really doesn't surprise me, because most people who used limewire at all just simply didn't know better, or they didn't know a darn thing at all.
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_ 		2. April 2011 @ 14:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by statomike:
 They might have shown an immediate drop, but there's no reason to doubt that those limewire users have found a replacement by now. All these articles about that study are just hype.

The sad thing is that this shallow and poorly analyzed hype is used to justify anti-piracy groups currently going for domains and the gnutella network.
Yes, you are right. The article is full of sh1t! I do believe piracy has seen better days but it will continue as long as media sells its product at unfair prices. A large portion of the pirates have stopped just because they want to quit while they are ahead. Every thing was wide open for years.
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