Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks
Also.. if I am a prosecutor... I would rather go after the girl that shared the file 1750 times, than find the 1750 downloaders.
|
Agreed, going after them all (or even a tiny percentage) is futile:
"The group says the number of households that have used file-sharing programs to download music has risen from 6.9 million monthly in April 2003, before the lawsuits began, to 7.8 million in March 2007. "
Of course, they want to target the big users to scare off others, but I'd assume the 7.75 million "light" users combined will think they have nothing to worry about - they don't share enough, in their opinion, to show up on the radar. Certainly it will scare off some, but I doubt enough to make much of a dent in the billions of GIGs of songs being downloaded.