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iTunes More Popular Than Most P2P Sites

Posted by Zonk on from the paying-its-way dept.

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."

2 of 333 comments (clear)

  1. Speed of Sound by LittleGuernica · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. General Observation by microcars · · Score: 4, Informative
    generally what I've noticed is that people who don't have the money to BUY music will download it via P2P.

    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 like microcars