According to a research from Nielsen/NetRatings
are there more users online who are willing to pay for music. Altough it might
be expected they would start using the legal music download services, this is
not the case. The online music CD retailers are currently still selling
more then any of the music download services. However peer to peer
networks like KaZaA are still the most popular way for customers to get their
music.
 Paid-for
music sites face an uphill struggle against both free download sites and
CD sellers. "The problem for paid download sites is that while security,
legitimacy and convenience are their main advantages over the file-sharing
communities, those advantages are also shared by sites which sell actual
CDs," said Tom Ewing, analyst with Nielsen/NetRatings. There is some
hope for paid-for services as music labels such as EMI gradually release
the tight grip they have been keeping on their catalogue of popular
artists.
And Apple has shown that money can be made
from music downloads, with its iTunes venture attracting millions of
users. For the music industry, a new website which claims to have found a
legal loophole that allows it to sell music without direct consent is
proving the latest in a long line of challenges to its dominance of the
distribution of music. |
Still this must be seen as a positive sign for the music
industry, not everyone is a pirate and there is still a big amount of people
willing to pay for music. You can read the entire story at the
BBC.
Source: BBC
