RIAA: Will you be Sued?
Posted in Technology by George
Probably not. I just checked out an article about the chances of someone being sued by the RIAA. Here are the statistics:
If we divide the total population of the P2P community (~12 million individuals), by the total number of lawsuits in 2004 (6,523), we get 1,840. In other words, your chances of being sued are 1 in 1,840 for all users (regardless of network) per year. How does that stack against all other odds of dying from an intentional or non-intentional injury? According to the National Safety Council, one’s yearly chances of dying from all external causes were 1 in 1,755 in 2002.
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you then have a 1 in 45,977 chance of being sued if you do not use FastTrack
Moral of the story is, don’t worry about it too much. If possible, don’t share illegal downloads if you happen to have them, and don’t use Kazaa-esque file sharing. Try torrents instead…
