Where have all the music pirates gone?
Remember when music was cool? Back in the days of Napster, it was music that defined file-sharing; millions of people raced to listen to the most obscure artists found in the libraries of friends and strangers. But that was back when music came on CD, was sold only by the album, and was a chore to rip to computers and (gasp!) transfer to the new MP3 players.
Now, with iTunes ascendant, DRM vanquished, the album disaggregated, and Pandora and Spotify available on smartphones, it’s almost more trouble than it’s worth to share music online unless you happen to be the world’s biggest cheapskate (and/or a college student).
All of which may explain why a new, rightsholder-funded study of P2P file-sharing shows music being traded far less than films, pornography, TV shows, video games, and computer software. Piracy isn’t a problem that industries like to have, but at least it suggests high interest in one’s product. When it comes to the 10,000 most popular files being shared online, however, music can only manage to beat out e-books in popularity.
» via ars technica
omfg LOL at that chart
porn beats film of any other type. classy
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good jokes
all the music pirates are on private trackers have you SEEN the state of music on shit like ThePirateBay? Despicable
this is a flawed analysis, music has fewer torrents in top 10,000 because music tastes are more fragmented than people’s tastes in tv shows or films. a meaningful graph would be one of media type by total number of leechers or seeders
