14-24 Year Olds Pirate 8,000 Music Tracks Each

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Link: http://torrentfreak.com/14-24-years-...s-each-090810/




Boy those drugs must be really good for the music industry.

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Mr. Belvedere

Only 8000? The University of Hertfordshire must have a very crappy internet bandwith.

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Seán

After the "All you can eat" type music service being suggested as many times over the past number of years, I really think the music industry should forget about thinking of its potential downsides and simply implement it: I.e. set up a website, set up a few prices (e.g. 50c/song, $5 for 25 songs or $10 for unlimited songs, without DRM) and watch it take off.

Some may wonder: What if someone signs up, downloads everything they can think of in the month and cancels their subscription?

Well, of those who signed up to unlimited Rapidshare, Megaupload, Usenet, etc. accounts, how many of these cancelled their subscription after their first month?

Of course, the vast majority of content on Rapidshare, Megaupload and similar paid download services can be got "free" on BitTorrent websites or if the user is willing to put up with their free download restrictions. What makes people pay is that generally anything listed on the paid services can be downloaded and also at high speed. Of course, there's always a high risk of getting fakes, viruses, keyloggers, etc. just like P2P file sharing.

Now, if the music industry (or even TV show companies) set up something similar for a flat monthly fee where they provide the content instead, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it becomes the best download service since the original Napster. Users would know that everything will be encoded properly and complete, songs will be properly named and that there is no longer a worry about downloading freshly released viruses or keyloggers that the virus checker companies are unaware of yet.

So what's wrong with the current Napster (or other "Unlimited" services)? Well, who wants crippled music that won't play on their iPod, be written to CD for their car stereo, expires when they cancel, etc.?