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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...