I wonder whether the jailing of the Pirate Bay founders will actually have the unintended effect of increasing file sharing?
Suppressing things there is a huge market for rarely works and the publicity around this verdict will likely produce copycat services and spread the awareness of bittorrent technologies further into the mainstream.
I heard a great line attributed to Cory Doctorow “P2P is a demand signal from the market”.
More power to forward-thinking business models such as Spotify, gaming tie-ups and ad-funded services.
