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RIAA vs. The People: Four Years Later

I found this fascinating; an indepth, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the RIAA's campaign against illegal downloading of music by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Some of the methods used by the RIAA are little short of extortion, and a lot of it sounds really ruthless and also rather futile in the broader picture. The paper also gives a good overview about the way file sharing has gone underground - foregoing P2P software for private networks and "darknet technology" (simple CD ripping and burning) that are harder to trace.