According to latest research from NPD Group, United State is declining and decreasing Internet Piracy.
Internet population of United State for using a P2P file-sharing service to download music was about 28million users, which also calculated as 16% at the end of 2007 has now decreased to 16million users, which is 9% at the end of 2010. Before 2011, LimeWire was forced to shut down its file-sharing service.
Between those 2 periods, the average number of music files downloaded from P2P network is also dropped from 35 tracks per person to 18 tracks per person.
56% of LimeWire users used only their P2P services to download musics; but after this service was forced to shut down, percentage has dropped to 32%. But other websites such as Frostwire has 10% increased for their file-sharing musics via P2P at the end of 2010. On the other hand, Bittorrent too, increased its users from 8% to 12% on the same period. NPD says whether LimeWire's shutdown has had a great effect on the number of illegal music downloads or no, it is not yet clear.
Observers from an entertainment industry for NPD, Russ Crupnick said: "LimeWire was so popular for music file trading, and for so long, that its closure has had a powerful and immediate effect on the number of people downloading music files from peer-to-peer services and curtailed the amount being swapped." "In the past, we’ve noted that hard-core peer-to-peer users would quickly move to other websites that offered illegal music file sharing. It will be interesting to see if services like Frostwire and Bittorrent take up the slack left by LimeWire, or if peer-to-peer music downloaders instead move on to other modes of acquiring or listening to music," he added.
These survey is based on NPD's data in January of 2011 and 5549 of U.S internet users that ages 13 and older.
Customers are being introduced to new, more convenient and more profitable for the music industry of methods of obtaining music legally, such as iTunes, a download store; Pandora and Spotify, an ad-supported streaming sites; Rhapsody and MOG, subscription services for users; Hulu and VEVO, which are video channels; TDC in Denmark, Sky in the United Kingdom, bundles of broadband services; last, Nokia and Sony Ericcson which used mobile phone handsets. According to IFPI, all of this has translated into significant revenue — $4.2 billion in 2009, although it is still not enough to compensate for the sharp falloff of physical format sales in recent years.
Internet reference:
Mashable.com URL: Internet music piracy study [Online] Retrieved on 26 March 2011.
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