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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."

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  1. FLIPPIN SWEET by Grakkar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CHECK THIS OUT: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =5588112443

  2. Re:even completely independent music sells VERY we by Takara · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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...

  3. Re:Sneaky advertising? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's absolutely not using /. as an advertisment board.

    I agree. Absolutely not. Absolutely totally fully not. Absolutely absolutely not. Totally and absolutely entirely unreservedly absolutely not. Absolutely absolutely not. No way. Impossible. Such a thing is absolutely not true. Absolutely

  4. Re:iTunes "market share" below 20% by Inda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  5. Re:Why Should The RIAA Be Surprised? by gryphokk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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!

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    And you, madam, are very ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.