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Originally Posted by niggle
What a truly, spectacularly awful example for you to choose
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Well it was a truly, spectacularly awful example of you completely missing his point.
The fact that iTunes is doing very well is completely beside the point. It shows the people are willing to pay for music online, but no more so than the existence of HMV and Virgin Megastore proves people will pay for CDs from a store -shoplifting still occurs. Just because someone who would have gone to get the CD, now uses iTunes, doesn't prove anything.
I'm not sure where you get your figures from that illegal downloaders is a small percentage, but consider this: In some of the most recent figures collected (Ipoque report, August - September 2007) over half of all internet traffic was recorded as P2P. The figure varied from 49% in the Middle East, to 83% in Eastern Europe. Obviously it would be impossible to break down and identify such a huge volume of data in detail, but I think we can safely presume that the majority of this traffic wasn't for sharing 'legally ok' material.
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Last edited by Hunch : 24-07-2008 at 12:33.
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