Legal music downloads triple in 2005 – vnunet.com
Jul 22, 2005Legal music downloads triple in 2005 – vnunet.com
Legal music downloads triple in 2005
Lawsuits take their toll on P2P usage
Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 22 Jul 2005New figures from the
International Federation of
Phonographic Industries (IFPI) show that legal music downloads have grown
threefold in the first half of 2005.Sales from January to June in the UK, France and Germany outstripped last
year’s total sales, reaching 180 million tracks compared to last year’s 157
million.In the UK, single-track downloads in the first half of 2005 were up tenfold
on the same period last year at just over 10 million. Meanwhile illegal
downloads on peer-to-peer networks rose by just three per cent.
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