{"id":320,"date":"2005-06-22T18:28:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T10:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/06\/2005_06_22_1828.php"},"modified":"2005-06-22T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T10:28:19","slug":"legal-music-downloads-at-35-soon-to-pass-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/22\/legal-music-downloads-at-35-soon-to-pass-piracy","title":{"rendered":"Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/06\/21\/2238256&amp;from=rss\" title=\"View article\">Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>bonch writes &#8220;Entertainment Media Research released a study stating that 35% of music listeners are using legal download services, and that the percentage will soon surpass illegal downloads, currently at 40%. Slashdot has also previously reported on services like iTunes gaining in popularity over P2P services. &#8220;The findings indicate that the music industry is approaching a strategic milestone with the population of legal downloaders close to exceeding that of pirates,&#8221; said Entertainment Media Research chief executive Russell Hart.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\" title=\"Visit Slashdot\">Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<!--more-->\n<p>This is probably one of the dumbest claims I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, of course you have to get statistics on who actually &#8220;pirates&#8221; stuff. And while you can trace a couple of thousand\/million\/etc. of them, everyone knows that isn&#8217;t at all near the actual numbers.<\/p>\n<p>If you can really &#8220;trace&#8221; <em>all<\/em> pirates (which should be the case since the study claims to represent piracy and legal downloading as a whole), then there wouldn&#8217;t even be a need for all this <em>pay-for-download<\/em> crap, since piracy wouldn&#8217;t exist in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>At best I&#8217;m guessing the article has a very limited scope. Or that the article is applicable to US <em>alone<\/em> (or some other nation which takes piracy as seriously as they do).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy bonch writes &#8220;Entertainment Media Research released a study stating that 35% of music listeners are using legal download services, and that the percentage will soon surpass illegal downloads, currently at 40%. Slashdot has also previously reported on services like iTunes gaining in popularity over P2P services. &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/22\/legal-music-downloads-at-35-soon-to-pass-piracy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Legal Music Downloads At 35%, Soon To Pass Piracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[924],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-piracy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}