It seems like the RIAA has its sites set on shutting down internet file sharing. while it may not be possible to 100% shutdown GNUtella I am thinking that they might see shutting down a few of the legitamate companies that make the popular clients like lime as a way to de-popularize it. I mean limewire ,bearshare and Morphous make a pretty penny off of the install base. Bundled Spy/scum ware is becoming a lucrative business model. so given that what we essentialy have is a company that is potentially facilitating the illegal piracy of copyrighted material and profiting from it. I see a huge obstacle in the future of these companies... I mean we as insiders understand that GNUtella is like http and that lime is like IE. but... what about the RIAA just the mention of a big suit could send a smaller company without a warchest scrambling. |