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by jeff goldman on January 2, 2010
Kaspersky Lab's 2010 cyberthreat forecast anticipates that malware writers will increasingly target P2P networks in the coming year.
"Kaspersky Lab said that it expects an increase in mass m...
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by jeff goldman on October 22, 2009
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A new study by Cisco comes to the same conclusion as Arbor Networks' study, discussed below-- P2P traffic is declining.
"The Cisco research shows that P2P use has...
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by Jordan Grodecki on June 17, 2008
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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by Jordan Grodecki on May 27, 2008
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 i...
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by Jordan Grodecki on January 8, 2008
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, whic...
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by Jordan Grodecki on January 2, 2008
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 analy...
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by Jordan Grodecki on December 25, 2007
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 tha...
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by Jordan Grodecki on December 19, 2007
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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by Marc on August 23, 2007
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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by Marc on August 17, 2007
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 proje...
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by Marc on August 9, 2007
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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by Marc on June 21, 2007
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 onl...
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by Marc on June 13, 2007
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 U....
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by Marc on May 21, 2007
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 Fu...
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by Marc on May 2, 2007
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 for...
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by Marc on March 7, 2007
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 how...
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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 d...
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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 f...
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by Marc on August 4, 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 movi...
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by Marc on July 3, 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 the...
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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 expensi...
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by Marc on June 8, 2006
A Pali Capital report, US Digital Track Trends Weakening, reports that while paid music download sales continue to grow compared to last year, they're actually declining week to week. This contras...
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by Marc on April 28, 2006
F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan hunter of the Cato Institute write about copyright law in Amateur-to-Amateur: The Rise of a New Creative Culture. They argue that copyright law only encourages production w...
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by Marc on April 24, 2006
Chris Anderson at The Long Tail gives another reason for the drop in music industry sales, and it's not P2P. It's The End of the Hit.
New genres like disco and grunge continually revitalize ...
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by Marc on April 20, 2006
Pitchfork writer J T. Ramsay interviews entertainment lawyer Steve Gordon on the future of the recording business and the state of its transition to a digital world. Gordon shares excellent insights o...
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by Marc on April 11, 2006
Russian quasi-legal music service AllOfMP3.com is back in the news. AllOfMP3.com released an iTunes-like client called, not coincidentally, allTunes. AllOfMP3.com already offers software called AllOfM...
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by Marc on April 10, 2006
Chris Anderson of The Long Tail looks at US Music Sales as reported by RIAA. While the press and entertainment industry point to declining revenues, Chris's Nifty chart shows that's not the ca...
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by Marc on April 6, 2006
Movielink and CinemaNow launched today to provide movie downloads.
The downloads cost $20-30. For example, the latest Harry Potter movie is $28 to buy on Movielink. You can play the movie on a total...
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by Marc on March 28, 2006
Streamcast, developer of Morpheus, has sued Skype and its founders under U.S. Racketeering law, according to Andy Abramson.
Mr. Wave Theory shares the beginning of the story when Streamcast hired Sky...
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by Marc on March 17, 2006
Canadian music association CRIA and RIAA are quick to point to unauthorized copying and P2P in particular as a monster that has cost the industry billions of dollars in revenues with little evidence. ...
