Quote - I guess I could look this up, but how successful was RIAA? I don't hear much about lawsuits anymore...so...was it a successful campaign to stop MP3 downloads?

Not really, AFAIK.  Lots of foot shooting, negative publicity and people who previously didn't download pirated music suddenly jumping on the bandwagon to do so.

Needless to say, it still goes on.  The British Gvt mooted a new law which would give ISPs the right (rather, obligation) to disconnect or restrict the bandwidth of suspected illegal downloaders.  That's turned into a very acrimonious debate with the law as it was drafted in serious doubt, because there's no proof the "downloader" actually was responsible.  Until a network's security can be proven beyond reasonable doubt, the law looks like it's dead in the water.

In several other countries, internet access is on the way to gaining legal status as a basic human right.  

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