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Portable MP3 Hardware Sales Up

Posted by timothy on from the hide-your-shock dept.

prostoalex writes "In December of 2002 only 12% of US music downloaders owned a digital music player, while for this year the number has increased to 17%. Jupiter Research expects the sales of the digital music players to double this year, while another research agency notes a remarkable shift towards paying for music. Even the music industry tends to agree that online music stores are a boon and expects the Web sales to really take off in 2004." (And the sales of Ogg-capable hardware are up, too, since there finally is some.)

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  1. IS THAT SO? WELL, FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE! EAT MY SHIT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
  2. Die Music Thieves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Jupiter Research expects the sales of the digital music players to double this year, while another research agency notes a remarkable shift towards paying for music.

    Big duh. Paying for what you consume beats jail or the poorhouse - the only other alternatives for unrepentant music thieves. Looks like all the anti-RIAA talk I've been hearing is just fronting off and signifying by a few l33t d0odz who really don't want to go to prison or become bankrupt after all.

    Artists need to be paid for what they produce, or they will no longer produce it. That's not my rule - its basic economics. Downloaders will learn the easy way or the hard way that they must pay for what they use like an adult, or accept the punishment if they don't.