Dvorak was NOT referring to the lawsuits that have been filed by the **AA for the last couple of years. Cast your mind back just few years prior to that..
Does the term "Napster" ring a bell? The "original" p2p application? The one that was eventually forced to shut down by Metallica, Dr. Dre, etc? THOSE are the lawsuits he's referring to.
Prior to Napster (and the massive press coverage the lawsuits garnered), I would not be surprised to learn that the only people who were even aware of the terms MP3, file sharing or p2p could probably all be found here on ./ Once the lawsuits hit the press, almost everyone with a computer had at least one bit of filesharing software on it (and, depending on the p2p application, became another system on somone's botnet).