> Bittorrent and Soulseek have left media corporations quaking in their boots for decades did they? From my understanding availability of piracy was not really

> Bittorrent and Soulseek have left media corporations quaking in their boots for decades did they? From my understanding availability of piracy was not really the issue behind the decline in revenue e.g. we still have all p2p infrastructure going on but the media revenue is through the roof - because of streaming. Also to me it seemed more people used file serving service e.g. megaupload to download movies / music rather than torrents.. > and increasingly relevant in a world where protocol trumps products does not seem to describe my experience at all. Most things that I and mainstream users tend to use are based on closed products rather than protocols... I hope the trend will disappear but it does not seem like it.