File Sharing Lawsuits Scared Few Users Away - Study

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File Sharing Lawsuits Scared Few Users Away - Study
By REUTERS



Filed at 11:03 a.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Use of the most popular Internet file-sharing service declined only 5 percent last week despite a high-profile crackdown by the U.S. recording industry on unauthorized music trading online, the latest data shows.
Around 4.23 million U.S. home users logged onto the KaZaa service, down from 4.47 million the week before (and down from 7 million in June), Internet researcher Nielsen//Netratings told Reuters on Friday. Usage on three other popular file-sharing services -- Morpheus, iMesh, and BearShare, stayed about the same from the previous week.<snip>