A study has been carried out on UK teens about how they aquire and listen to music, and has come out with the somewhat suprising result that 80% of those who used illegal file sharing services, want a...
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Alexa, despite being utterly useless at almost everything, does have one redeeming use; you can judge how popular websites are against one another with the site, and it's been suprising to see in...
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In a statistic that is sure to please the RIAA, music sales over the previous Christmas are down a whopping 21% on last year. In the runup to Christmas, 83.9 million albums were sold this year, which...
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Happy new year everyone! It's 2008, and a couple of people have compiled some statistics for you if you happen to be interested in what was shared last year. Firstly Big Champagne, a media...
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Hi all. Just posting a little update to wish you all a Merry Christmas, or alternatively Happy Holidays if you do not celebrate Christmas. I hope you have all had a good day with your family and that...
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That's South Koreans, not those from the North, nobody really knows what they get up to due to their delightful style of government. However, back to relevent news; a study from the Korean Film...
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According to Insight Research's 51 page market report, "Peer-to-Peer & File-Sharing Services Market 2007-2011", P2P could generate up to $28 billion in revenues for telecom carriers...
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According to the report Internet TV 'goldrush' from researcher Understanding & Solutions, Internet and P2PTV will reach $10 billion in worldwide ad revenues by 2011, about 18% of all...
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If the music biz thinks its declining business will get easier, it's dead wrong. To the contrary, it's a harbinger for the rest of the digital entertainment sector. That's the conclusion...
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Adult entertainment DVD sales and rentals dropped for the first time to $3.6 billion in 2006 from $4.2 billion in 2005, according to industry trade magazine AVN. From the sales drop to the rise in...
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The U.S. fell further behind in world broadband according to the latest OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) survey. The report rated the U.S. 15th out of 30 countries. The...
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Consumers are strongly reacting negatively to DRM. But here will always be situations where it's better accepted, such as for business and hard-to-share content. I wrote about this in "The...
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Research from BigChampange and PC Pitstop shows that Limewire has captured a huge lead as the top P2P software now that former giants like eDonkey and Kazaa have either been put out of business or...
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Writer Bob Cringely looks at Apple TV media extender and wonders why it needs a 40 GB hard drive. Obviously the drive will be used for video storage, similar to Tivo. But it's not clear why or...
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by Marc on September 29, 2006
A Jupiter Research survey shows that the real penetration of authorized music downloads is abysmal. Only 20 of the tracks on an iPod or MP3 player, or 5% of the total, are purchased from iTunes or a...
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by Marc on September 27, 2006
Generator Research released "Ad-supported Music Services: Making a Business Out of free music". The report looks at SpiralFrog and Qtrax business models, which include free and legal music...
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by Marc on August 04, 2006
The Diffusion Group conducted a study on consumer price sensitivity fir movies on iPods. They found a sweet spot at $10 where 23% of U.S. broadband users said they'd be interested in buying a...
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by Marc on July 03, 2006
Strategy Analytics report "TV and Movie Downloads: Harnessing the Power of P2P" predicts that P2P will be critical to legal movie and video distributors. "Our analysis suggests that...
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by Marc on June 12, 2006
The demand for high bandwidth will only increase, especially with IPTV on the horizon. How will it be served? > Content distribution networks, such as Akamai, use edge servers that are less...
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