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."

Comments

Re:even completely independent music sells VERY we

[Takara]

Yes us alpha-geeks here on Slashdot may get our music from allofmp3.com or SoulSeek or whatever, but

Allofmp3? SOULSEEK!? You are behind the times, man. Anyone who wants music need but four simple links.

Azureus
Torrent Spy
http://www.bittorrent.com/ - Bittorrent Search

Ahhh.. The trackerless network...

Re:iTunes "market share" below 20%

[Inda]

10 million? I think that's a bit low. There were 6,500 people after a single Xbox game last night... from one single source.

Re:Why Should The RIAA Be Surprised?

[gryphokk]

F&FOT

After fully digesting the movie of Webber's Phantom, I got inspired to read the Gaston Leroux (SP?) novel. Grabbed a copy from the Gutenberg project. loaded up in Word, and surprisingly, read it cover to er, well, EOF

I'd attempted that before, and found myself bored reading onscreen, but this time I actually finished it.

One difference I've identified is presbyopia. The day I turned 41, my eyes went to hell, and started holding books at arms length. Book-readin now requires store-bought glasses.

I've actually begun to find it much more comfortable to read onscreen. Word, Acrobat Reader, Firefox, all have easily controlled text size, so I just blow it up 'til I can see it!