I'm wondering if it really will stop. They "ask" us not to start new downloads after that time. Perhaps this is just legal CYA. "Well Judge, We did what we could and we asked them to stop..."

Personally I don't see how Gnutella is at risk since it is a completely decentralized system. Napster was centralized and it died. Kazaa is mostly decentralized but they switched to central user authentiation recently (mostly to knock out non-licensed clients like the Open Source Linux client). This is where they made their mistake.

I seems to be that the RIAA has only attached centrally managed systems and I don't see how a Gnutella client is at risk. After all, the client is not good or evil, it depends on how it is used.