I made a post last week about the RIAA’s announcement that it is gathering evidence in order to sue illegal file-sharers. Well, the Washington Post reports that their announcement is actually having the opposite intended effect, at least in the short term. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, one of the popular file-sharing applications, says that “file-trading activity among Grokster users has increased by 10 percent in the past few days,” adding his take that “even genocidal litigation can’t stop file sharers.” Other file-sharing applications are seeing similar gains, adding credence to the idea that the RIAA’s action has done nothing but make people more curious about the technology rather than scare them away from it. This may yet change as the organization allegedly gets further into its investigation, but for now I think it’s pretty funny…
