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Video and Software Downloads Overtaking Music

Posted by michael on from the leaching-for-fun-and-profit dept.

Trigun writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that movie and software downloads have outpaced music downloads. Music accounted for 48.6 percent of files shared online, compared with 62.5 percent in 2002, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The article says that 1 in 4 internet users have downloaded at least one movie, and attributes the proliferation to access to broadband. Maybe we've just downloaded all the good music already?"

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  1. Number of files or size? by __aagctu1952 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So, are they talking about the total number of files swapped or the total size of them? I suspect the latter, and in that case it's no big surprise: One ripped movie shared - ~700 MB. One ripped CD shared - 70 MB.

  2. 1 in 4 isn't believable by richmaine · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Come on. I forget the stats on broadband, but I didn't think 1 in 4 even had broadband yet. Could look it up, but don't have time right now. Certainly can't be much more than that, particularly in the U.S.

    And I'm not going to believe that *ALL* of the broadband users have downloaded movies. (I haven't :-)).

    I'm also not going to believe that a noticable
    fraction of dialup users have.