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."

Comments

Re:American assholes

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know about that one... Unlike tubgirl, it isn't disgusting. Instead, it's just funny. Hardly a 'throw a brick through the monitor' sight. S/he's cute.

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 It is a place to find out-of-date and hard to find stuff.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?

A Daring Proposal - M3!

[Cap'n Canuck]

You've got your Moderation, your Meta-Moderation, and now, Meta-Meta-Moderation - moderating the editors! (or EM, or EdMod, or M - I'm still working on the syntax)

I say that anyone and everyone should be able to let the editors know how they're doing.
Is it a truly good story? EdMod +1!
Don't think the story is newsworthy? EdMod -1!
Don't think the story is nerdworthy? EdMod -1!
Is it a repost? EdMod -1!
A link is broken? EdMod -1!
Spelling misteakes? EdMod -1!
Haven't had any caffeine yet? EdMod -1!
Weren't able to post a frist post in time? EdMod -1!
Artice was posted by [editor you hate]? EdMod -1!

Of course, all results will be > /dev/null, so this will in no way affect their ability to post more inane stories, misspel wurdz, or re-post previous stories, but damn, it would feel good!

"Ye can Mod me doon, but ye cannae take awey me Karma!"
Wait, actually, you can...

Re:A Daring Proposal - M3!

[MImeKillEr]

I'd participate in that, for sure.

Heck, let's do away with the current method of submittals as well. Let's have the ability to drop these in a queue and have everyone mod these. Those with the highest mods get posted. Include the ability to stop people from being able to mod up their own submittals.

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...