“As legal music downloading takes off as never before, music pirates are shunning peer-to-peer services in favor of using iPods to swap music,” Jo Best reports for CNET News. “According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the number of music downloaders using peer-to-peer networks has dropped in recent months. Currently, 21 percent of downloaders use networks such as Kazaa or Grokster for music or video, compared with the 58 percent who downloaded music from file-sharing networks in February 2004.”
Best reports, “By contrast, other methods of swapping music are gaining ground. iPods, along with instant messaging, blogs and other sources, are becoming a popular music transfer tool. Eleven percent of former file sharers admitted to using Apple Computer’s iPod or other MP3 players to swap songs in the past, compared with the 15 percent of downloaders who currently do.”
Full article here.
Time to re-read Peter F. Hamilton’s, “Misspent Youth.”
I don’t think piracy by iPod, physically meeting one fellow pirate at a time, can reach QUITE as wide a distribution as doing so on the Internet with automatic access to thousands of pirates.
(PS, the Magic Word thing doesn’t like Tabbed Browsing. It puts the same word in multiple tabs.)
In another survey 98 percent of people who had purchased CDs admitted to having used them for Piracy in the past through loaning them to friends to record or making recordings of them and giving them to friends. 100 percent of people who have rented a CD admitted to having pirated by recording in the past. Stamp out CDs sales and rentals NOW!!!!
“file sharers admitted to using Apple Computer’s iPod OR OTHER MP3 PLAYERS” [emphasis mine]
Gee, no kidding? People who download .mp3 files tend to listen to them on .mp3 players?
This is no different than someone bringing along their laptop with their music library on the HD, when visiting friends, plugging in an ethernet cable, and swapping collections. I imagine the same happens with thumbdrives and would with Jaz media, if they were ubiquitous.
That iPods happen to be used for this simply means that they’re a relatively popular portable storage device. That it also happens to be a music player is irrelevant.
dennis.. read the whole sentence..
BTW you should write headlines for the NY Post or something.. your ability to twist words and take things out of context is really astounding
84% of all statistics are made up on the spot
100% of Americans took this survey!
0% of me cares about this article or its discussion. I don’t even know why I’m here.
Did any of you see the fantasy iPod watch on B2.0? Neeeeeato!
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/photoessay/0,21937,1039453-1,00.html
Wow. Of the two items mentioned in this story, everyone seems to be keying in on the less interesting of the two. I really don’t think “piracy by iPod” will ever be a big concern for the record companies, because it doesn’t involve the massive distribution of the P2P services. Everyone should relax.
On the other hand, Sharman Networks and the likes might want to start sweating a little, as it seems the iTMS is having a serious impact on P2P usage.
When you hook up your ipod to another computer iTunes will ask you if you want to replace your library.
It is not easy to use an ipod to transfer music files. You need to install programs other than iTunes to be able to do this.
“When you hook up your ipod to another computer iTunes will ask you if you want to replace your library.
It is not easy to use an ipod to transfer music files. You need to install programs other than iTunes to be able to do this.”
And then?
Do you really think that people won’t figure that out. I truly believe that people are genuinely dumb, but even dumb people can do this little trick.