James Fee
06-07-2005, 06:28 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.betanews.com/article/Study_iTunes_More_Popular_than_P2P/1118158804' target='_blank'>http://www.betanews.com/article/Study_iTunes_More_Popular_than_P2P/1118158804</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A survey conducted by research firm NPD Group suggests that Apple's iTunes may be more popular than some leading peer-to-peer file sharing networks. According to the survey, iTunes is now neck-and-neck with LimeWire, while beating out other services such as Kazaa and iMesh. "Digital download stores appear to have created a compelling and economically viable alternative to illegal file sharing," Russ Crupnick, president of the NPD Group’s Music and Movies division, said in a statement. Crupnick said the proof of this was the fact that Napster and the RealPlayer store also joined iTunes in the top ten most used music services - showing that consumers may be cooling to P2P."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/itunes_p2p.jpg" /> <br /><br />What a surprise, you give the consumer what they have been asking for and they use it. Hopefully the MPAA will look at this study and get working on a "compelling" video download store.