Music industry's digital plans 'fail' - P2P-Zone

RDixon · 20-02-02, 07:43 PM

The music industry's attempts to replace Napster and similar copyright-breaking services with legitimate music downloads have failed, according to a report.
The report, by OC&C Strategy Consultants, says legitimate, paid-for music downloads earned only $1m (£710,000) in the US and UK last year.
At the same time, some eight billion tracks were exchanged by users of pirate sites offering free music downloads - and up to 2.7m people at any one time are logged on to them.
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RDixon Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 3,742	Music industry's digital plans 'fail' The music industry's attempts to replace Napster and similar copyright-breaking services with legitimate music downloads have failed, according to a report. The report, by OC&C Strategy Consultants, says legitimate, paid-for music downloads earned only $1m (£710,000) in the US and UK last year. At the same time, some eight billion tracks were exchanged by users of pirate sites offering free music downloads - and up to 2.7m people at any one time are logged on to them. More

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