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Less Kazaa visitor because of RIAA complaints 16:49:39 (tecCHANNEL.de, 01,10,2003) the 261 copyright complaints of the Recording Industry Association OF America (RIAA) against US-American InterNet internet-Surfer show effect: After collections of Nielsen/Netratings the number of visitors reduced Kazaa with the exchange stock exchange in the past three months by 41 per cent. The RIAA had submitted 2003 copyright complaints on 8 September against 261 Internetsurfer, which had downloaded illegally music titles of one of the different file sharing services on their computers and had then continued to spread this Songs also still. With 64 surfern the RIAA agreements had been able to obtain, their conditions however does not admit was given. Against twelve this surfer had exerted, reports the RIAA thereby still no complaint the computer week. Nielsen compared two weeks of the yearly 2003 with one another for its computation: On the one hand on 29 June 2003 terminated, on the other hand those, which ran off on 21 September. In the comparison June with the September week fell the number of the Visits on the Kazaa Website by 41 per cent. In naked numbers: Visited the Site in June if still 6.5 million InterNet internet-Surfer and music-exchange-willing, were in September only more 3.9 million. Less spectacularly however the decrease of the Visits still noticeably was with Morpheus, another file sharing offerer. In the same comparison period sank here the visitor frequency of 272.000 to 261.000 visitors. Gallup Gallup-Institut, US-American Meinungsforschungsinstitut, possibly inquired a reason for the considerless shifting actions of music titles under Internetsurfern in an inquiry among young people at the age between 13 and 17 years: Afterwards do not regard 83 per cent of 517 asked dte rodents it as morally despicable to download itself music titles from the InterNet on their own PCs without paying for this. (Computerwoche/uba)