Enforcer Associations and File Sharing...

I believe that the policing of Peer to Peer file sharing networks by associations such as the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), and the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) is ineffective and pointless. When one thinks about it why do these companies police the Peer to Peer networks anyways? Well one reason is money, there is a lot of revenue lost every year to the file sharing networks such as Limewire, Bit Torrent, and others. As a result of this many artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians lose part of their livelihood because people don’t pay for their product. The RIAA, MPAA, and ESA or enforcer associations as I call them tend to focus their policing efforts at the students of colleges and universities which makes sense to some degree, practically everyone I know (including my self), has shared music or other data over the Internet but I believe that the enforcer associations are missing the point. It is not just college kids that are doing the sharing but individuals outside of the school domain that are the main culprits. I believe that it is rather pointless for the enforcer associations to try to police peer to peer file sharing because people will always find a way to circumvent or outsmart the watchful eyes of the enforcers. I believe that the enforcers irrelevancy will increase this year due to the economic crisis because when people are crunched for money they often times look to the Internet to provide them with free entertainment versus paying $5.67 to rent a movie at Blockbuster, 99 Cents for a song off of Itunes, or $50 dollars for a video game at Best Buy. The bottom line is policing the Internet is close to impossible because there will always be the few people that circumvent enforcing and continue to make profits off of file swapping and until the consumers, artists, and corporations reach a fair compromise on online file sharing people will continue to use peer to peer networks and continue to get their music, movies, and games for free.

Meet Mr. Enforcer, he will eat your lunch and then vaporize you with his laser eyes if he catches you file sharing!