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RIAA Pres: 'Legal Music Sales Growth Proof that Suing People Worked'

By soulxtc

Says effectiveness of lawsuits against illegal file-sharers proven by rise in legal digital downloads from $183 million in 2004 to well over $3 billion this year. RIAA Pres Cary Sherman has been busy trying to put a positive spin on the RIAA's recent decision to quit targeting individual file-sharers. In an interview with CNET, Sharman defends the plan, started some 5 years ago, as the music industry's only option when file-sharing was running rampant with the use of KaZaA, Morpehus, and the like. "If you can go back to that time in your mind and remember that file sharing was growing at logarithmic pace," Sherman said referring to 2003, not long after file-sharing service Napster had triggered a music-swapping frenzy. "It was unbelievable how much infringement was going on and there was no sense that it was illegal.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).