Filed in archive RIAA, MPAA by Marc on September 21, 2006

A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows.

RIAA Body Count
Status		Settlement amount (Million USD)
	Software			P2P Networks
In active litigation
	Limewire	8-06
	Morpheus	10-01, latest
Agreed to transition to authorized business
	Kazaa	7-06	$115M
Converted to authorized business
	BearShare sold to iMesh	8-06	$30M
	iMesh	10-05	$4M
Ceased operations
	eDonkey	9-05	$30M
	Grokster	11-05	$50M
	i2hub	11-05
	WinMX	9-05
Authorized businesses with major label content
	MyPeer	announced
	Qtrax	announced
	BitTorrent	announced
	iMesh	10-05
	Maxhboxx	announced

This list includes only parties that publicly develop decentralized P2P software for major networks. It does not include freeware/open source resuscitations or distributions, web sites, servers, international software or services, or older software (Napster 1.0, Scour, Aimster, Audiogalaxy, etc.).

The P2P Insider's Blog will run occasional updates. Feel free to comment with additions. Go to RIAABodyCount.com to be forwarded to the latest Body Count.

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RIAA Body Count - August 6 - 06 August 2006
RIAA Body Count - August 22 - 22 August 2006
RIAA Body Count - August 22 - 22 August 2006
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Response from: Mood Disorders (05/02/07 9:11am)

In the past 6 months, the war against P2P has reached a critical stage. Courts from around the world (including the United States, Spain, Taiwan and Australia) have united in their decisions against P2P operators and ordered some of the most popular to shut down their operations. It appears that as quickly as P2P has spread since Napster , the closing down of operators is now happening just as fast.

Response from: P2P Rehab (06/17/07 11:52pm)

No matter how many lawsuits they throw out, the people are always going to win. There's no way to prevent people from wanting to share information without constraint. I just don't think it's ever going to be possible - another network will spring up right where the last one left off.

Response from: bitacle.org

[...] A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows. [...]