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Legal Downloading on Upswing, Lawsuits the Cause?

Legal online music sales from stores such as iTunes have tripled thus far in 2005 from last year. You may think this would be something attributed to the fact that there are 3 times as many online music stores as last year and that the whole "legal" download approach is becoming easier every day. Nope!

According to the recording industry, the reason legal online music purchases are up is because of their lawsuits filed against individual file traders. Yeah, that's what it is. Do these fools really expect people to buy that shit?

First of all, according to BigChampagne's stats, show two times as many P2P users in 6/2005 than in 2003. Also, just think about it - the iTunes music store that opened in Europe added over $800,000 in revenue in the first week alone. Maybe the continued success of such stores had something to do with it.

I find it frightening that the RIAA would claim that their Gestapo lawsuits actually convinced individuals to start purchasing legally. Will they ever learn?

Posted by ZeroLogik on July 21, 2005 9:20 PM |