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Suing music downloaders appears to be working.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Jon Fortt
Where pleas from Britney Spears and Metallica failed, a flurry of legal threats seem to be doing the trick: Music downloaders are fleeing file-swapping services in droves, and convenient legal download services are cropping up to fill the void.
Though critics decried the record companies as ham-fisted bullies earlier this month for suing 261 people including a 12-year-old girl, the results appear to be just what the industry wanted.
Kazaa usage has fallen 40 percent since last spring when the Recording Industry Association of America began suing students who ran on-campus file-swapping networks. Kazaa, the most popular file-swapping service, had 17.4 million U.S. unique visitors in March, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, a consulting company that monitors Web traffic. In ...
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