Music lovers everywhere continue to look to the p2p networks for their music fixes and the number of people logged on may be stabilizing at around 9,000,000 for any given moment in any given day.
Warner Music, EMNI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG claim their sue 'em all lawsuits are driving victims to the corporate online 'services' and 'stores' backed and supplied by the industry and, asserts John Kennedy, the man who runs the Big Four's IFPI, the cases are, "proving a major deterrent to illegal p2p file-sharing".
However, in September, on average 9,044,010 people around the world were logged onto the p2p networks simultaneously at any one time, p2p market research company Big Champagne tells p2pnet.
In September last year, the number was 9,284,558, well up from the 6,784,574 in 2004 and 3,764,032 in 2003.
In fact, one might surmise the huge amount of propaganda and PR the Big Four Organized Music cartel continues to pump out is maintaining and perhaps even enhancing the online community's enthusiasm p2p file sharing, rather than dampening it.
