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iTunes More Popular Than Most P2P Sites
bonch writes "A study by NPD Group shows that iTunes ranks #2 in popularity of music downloads, rivaling services like Limewire, Kazaa, and iMesh. The #1 service was still WinMX, but NPD believes this proves to the music industry that legal downloads can work, and that iTunes provides an economically viable alternative." From the article: "According to NPD, about 4 percent of Internet-enabled households in the nation used a paid music download store in March."
Coldplay's new single "speed of Sound" sold extremely well thru itunes, thats because it was released the day after the first airplay. I run a Coldplay fansite ( http://closingwealls.net/ - blatant plug) and following the news around the band, it seems that the single was one of the most downloaded songs ever on itunes, because of that fact. This has proven to be a very succesfull formula. Publish the single online the same day as it hits the airwaves, and people dont have to listen to the radio to hear it, for a tiny dollat they can lsiten it legally whenevewr they want. thats a huge incentive. Of all the legal downloadservices, iTunes gets it the best and is probably right that subscriptions dont work.
Yeah, WinMX doesn't work. Only fools would use spyware free P2P apps that have barely been updated in 2 years.
Of course the reason for the WinMX software not to get updated for 2 years is coz it doesn't work, right? And the queues, they're there only to allow RIAA stooges to log your IP manually, and the users who say "you don't share enough", they're MPAA hooks using entrapment tactics. And the range of rare content is because only eclectic people use it.
May WinMX continue to suck.
I think you mean they're losing money on total box office receipts.
No, although the total office receipts are dropping too.
Or are they expecting to pay for all the production & distribution costs and then some from a single day's ticket sales?
No, they were using opening day receipts as a guage on how many units they would ship to Blockbuster and other rental outlets. The popularity movie as a rental was a function of how well it did opening day.
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CD Baby is a great music store. I almost buy all my CDs there because they have all kinds of music I've never heard before and it's good to hear new stuff. FYI the guy who created CD Baby is a real geek and write his stuff in Ruby. He's absolutely not using /. as an advertisment board.
Nothing really lost, they weren't going to buy it anyways.
BUT, when they DO have money...they BUY their music, either on CD or via iTunes or some other vendor.
When your TIME becomes WORTH something you don't SPEND it all on P2P.
I don't know, that's what I see going on around me....
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I might be confused, but...
Limewire is simply a client for the gnutella network. Same story with Kazaa for the FastTrack network. The article doesn't seem to distringuish between a network, and an interface (client) to that network.
This doesn't mean their statistics are invalid, simply that they haven't grasped a fundamental distinction between a network and a client. It does make me question the credibility of the statistics.
On topic, I'm still waiting for a legal site that offers DRM-less lossless (or Ogg, since that's the format I want to convert to) music. I'll pay them happily. I just want it all to work under Linux, for a bit cheaper than simply buying all the CDs and ripping them costs me in money and time. Oh, and I want to have permanent access to the music, without any of my fair use priveleges infringed upon. =) I use Magnatune, but something slightly more mainstream would be nice, as well.
The NPD report is bull----. Zeropaid sets the record straight.
Because I'm a paying Slashdot member which means I saw the story posted a full 20 minutes or so before the non-paying browsers see it.
So there. :-)
Parent: any chance you'll use that 300k a month to drop the price of these independent albums to sub $10 each?
Are you smoking the ganj, man? You demonstrated you read the post, but I think you missed this:
GP:91% of all that income goes directly to the musician.
300k - 91% = 27k left to pay hosting/bandwidth costs, advertising, any employees that need to be paid, any other costs of doing business, oh yea and 4) PROFIT!!.
I know the RIAA has left us gun shy of the words "music" and "profit" together; but he's paying the artists fairly and giving everyone the same fair shot. This guy isn't using any industry stranglehold on politicians & airwaves to artificially pump up the prices.
~Rebecca
Look at your Purchase History under your account in iTunes (click your e-mail address for your account options). You can find all the music you purchased before.
Did you not read the post by the CDBaby dude?
$300,000 a month, $3.6 million a year, 91% goes to the artist.
So $273,000 a month goes to the artists. Or, if you believe DownhillBattle, $0.65 of every $0.99 goes to CDBaby, and if 91% goes to the artist, then each artist gets $0.59 a track.
Your value of $0.10 to $0.25 is bogus, and applies to non indie, RIAA affiliated musicians. So if you really do want to support artists, find some indies on iTunes and buy away; look for CDBaby artists, and you'll be giving more than 50% directly to the artist. Doing anything else (p2p, RIAA CDs, used RIAA CDs, etc) is really just talk.
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