Ipsos-Reid: More Americans Downloading Music

An anonymous reader writes "Ipsos-Reids ongoing research on file trading called Tempo again confirms a continuing rise in the number of Americans downloading music from the Net. Furthermore, almost a third (31%) of those who do download claim they have paid for at least some of the music they got online. Of course, having paid once from services like Rhapsody and PressPlay doesn't mean you were satisfied with the value. It does mean though that a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa. You can see the the report graphs here."

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Trodo

[webword]

We just launched a web site that is sort of like a free eBay or maybe something like an offline Napster: Trodo.com. What is Trodo? "Trodo is a place to trade stuff. It is a friendly barter system. It is a bazaar. It is place to swap stuff. It is a place to share. It is a place to meet people who have stuff you want. It is a place to find out-of-date and hard to find stuff. It is a place to give people stuff you don't want, and to get stuff they don't want." This is a legal, (currently) free, and easy way to exhcange stuff with other people, like CDs and books. After you pay for something and use it, trade it away and get something in return. As I said, we literally just launched. What do you think?

I cant download music anymore...

[LordYUK]

at my current connection speed, it would take about forever to download a typical 3.5 meg song... thank you AT&T Cable!!!

God its depressing when you go to a site that says 1 minute @ 56k and it takes you 90 seconds on yer cable modem...