No, the commercial clients are the weak point. You have a company that can easily be sued out of existance because they are underfunded and would fold in a minute if they had to hire a real lawyer. Most would rather dissapear then fight with some real cash.

Open source, free to use clients are the way to go. Support them! Write some docs, suggest some features, convince others to run the clients instead of commercial ones, do some PR for them. Do whatever you can and you can help to save gnutella from the RIAA!

The RIAA knows greed, they know how to use it against companies and they know it won't take much to take out a big chunk of gnutella any time they want through the commercial clients.

If we are all using open source, free to use clients, gnutella can't be stopped or slowed down in any way. If someone does something to the network directly, we can respond quickly with a code fix and distribute that fix quickly, within hours. If the RIAA tries to use threats to ISP's, then we make some code changes quickly to prevent that.

There's no stopping open source clients!