According to NPD, users of P2P services to download unauthorized music has fallen 17 percent year-over-year in the U.S. as consumers move towards legal alternatives. Due to the drop, overall volume of illegally downloaded music fell 26 percent, a number that must certainly excite the record labels. NPD's annual survey showed that piracy as a whole (for music) is falling in nearly every category. ...
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Originally posted by deak91:Really?!? I just thought it was just all music. My bad.
lol chalk this up to crap music who wants crap music
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by deak91:Really?!? I just thought it was just all music. My bad.
lol chalk this up to crap music who wants crap music
Originally posted by deak91:Yeah, I must admit I don't use it. I was likening it to Netflix I suppose which naturally isn't available in Oz because we're the only country in the world that can fake orgasm while being r@ped.
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by deak91:Really?!? I just thought it was just all music. My bad.
lol chalk this up to crap music who wants crap music
lol good point ....at some point in time they began to tell us that crap music is good music and no one caught on
Originally posted by deak91:I couldn't agree more!! :)
lol chalk this up to crap music who wants crap music
Originally posted by deak91:Not to mention you can just as easily watch a video on YouTube, and from any device... you can even rip the MP3 right from the video. It's not for audiophiles, but if for some reason you need the file, you now have it.
Well now that the funny is out of the way ... I think the reason is the consumer is more wise as to how they spend their money .... Sure p2p numbers went down but so did sales. I bet digital sales for singles went up but posting that would point out the truth about how they justify not making that billionth dollar they say they need or they would be hurting
Originally posted by SProdigy:lol, I like to rip music from movies too; but yes people get smarter on how to get info, spend less & download the right apps.
Originally posted by deak91:Not to mention you can just as easily watch a video on YouTube, and from any device... you can even rip the MP3 right from the video. It's not for audiophiles, but if for some reason you need the file, you now have it.
Well now that the funny is out of the way ... I think the reason is the consumer is more wise as to how they spend their money .... Sure p2p numbers went down but so did sales. I bet digital sales for singles went up but posting that would point out the truth about how they justify not making that billionth dollar they say they need or they would be hurting
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