dailymail.co.uk — A third of iPod owners are downloading illegally, a major study has found. "Free activity - both legal and otherwise - significantly outweighs paid activity," said Mark Mulligan, vice president at JupiterResearch, which carried out the study.
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kbarrettSep 18, 2006
This service is so cheap I almost feel like I'm stealing music.<a class="user" href="http://allofmp3.com/">http://allofmp3.com/</a>
zatrixSep 19, 2006
"33% of iPod owners are 'stealing' music on the net"in other news 100% of the music, movies, clothing, etc industries/corporations/business are stealing our money by over charging for their products, so what's your point? Maybe if my yearly salary was above 7 figures I wouldn't mind spending 15 bucks on a CD. But frankly with tuitions prices going up each year I don't see how it's fair.
lcohiomatty86Sep 19, 2006
IPOD's need subscription based music services.. i do NOT understand why iTunes is so popular.. 99cents a song?.. i can easily get music on yahoo unlimited for like 79 cents.. which is 20% cheaper.. that and if their subsctipion services worked for IPODS people could just download all their music instead of having to pay per song.
codingSep 19, 2006
Compared to who, this isn't information. Its a one-sided statistic.
aliguanaSep 19, 2006
I just go into the local library, get out a bunch of cds, rip them then take them back and get some more. been doing this for 5 years +. And before that, I'd go to the local library, get out a bunch of vinyl LPs, take them home and tape them. and before that.....
maynaSep 19, 2006
People that buy the 80 GB iPod aren't using it for just music. If all you want is music, a nano will suffice. I use my 60 GB iPod for some music, but lots of video. I either rip DVDs that I own, or I copy TV shows onto our DVR, burn them to DVD, then rip that. (Which, last I checked, saving tv shows off the tv for your own use was legal). All the music on my iPod is ripped from our CDs, with a few tracks downloaded from iTunes. Oh and I bought some of the iPod games from iTunes. And I can put pictures from my digital camera on my iPod, on a trip if I don't want to lug my laptop.No way in hell I would buy a 60 GB iPod if all it did was music.
linkwraySep 19, 2006
@lakawakPlease read the SCOTUS decision DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985)<a class="user" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/473/207.html">http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/473/207.html</a>Here's the part you should really pay attention to:"Since the statutorily defined property rights of a copyright holder have a character distinct from the possessory interest of the owner of simple "goods, wares, [or] merchandise," interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud."Copyright infringement is not "THEFT. Period." There's still quite a large amout of gray area about equating "THEFT" with copyright infringment.Period.
lustreSep 19, 2006
So, honest people are stupid? Wow, that's disheartening.
Closed AccountSep 20, 2006
"But how to prevent someone from distributing product to people who aren't entitled to product?"They're not going to there will always be a group of people who are determined to pirate content and they're going to. What the RIAA etc have to do is convince as many people as possible that paying for content is good for them as well as for the record labels. It's going to end up being a PR battle not technological one. They need to make the user experience of buying and using that content as positive and rewarding for the consumer as they possibly can. That means supporting as many devices as possible and offering high quality, not the 128 or 192 Kbps AAC or WMA they currently offer. They can offer extras like album art and liner notes. There are a number ways they could improve. "How can legitimate sales be made without a DRM mechanism when there is no limit to the distribution system (internet)?"DRM hasn't stopped anyone, with the exception of unsophisicated users (like the grandmother who just got her first computer) from pirating content. Every song on iTunes and Napster is avaliable on P2P for free with no limits. eMusic sells plenty of legal music without DRM and my understanding is they're doing quite well at it."It seems to me that there'd be no more reason for a music industry at all. Is that a good thing?"If by industry you mean the music label system, then I'd say there is still a need for them, though that need is rapidly declining. Labels still have a much greater ability to promote artists and that's where the need for them come from. As popular online music outlets like iTunes open up there services to unsigned musicians etc the scale is starting to balance in terms of how effectively an artist can promote themselves veruses how well a label could. Make no mistake there is still a big divide between the two, but it is narrowing.