The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) released a report today titled "RIAA v. The People: Four Years Later," that details the ongoing struggle between Internet users and the entertainment business. The report (link to PDF) offers a well-constructed history of the attempts by big business to stem the flow of content driving the P2P community.
The report states, "[A]fter more than 20,000 RIAA lawsuits, tens of millions of U.S. music fans continue to use P2P networks and other new technologies to share music. The lawsuit campaign has not succeeded in driving P2P out of the mainstream, much less to the fringes, of the digital music marketplace. Moreover, by most accounts P2P usage is growing rapidly in the rest of the world, where the RIAA has not been able to replicate the scale of its lawsuits against Americans of all ages and backgrounds."
The findings mirror the current state of affairs on the Web which recently saw the resurrection of file-sharing site Suprnova (supported by The Pirate Bay), and sites like VideoHybrid continue to show full-length movies online, untouched by the litigious hand of Hollywood.
**Pictured right: EFF's IP & Fair Use Attorney Fred von Lohmann ***____
