Introduction Over the last several months a number of reports have been published on the impact of file sharing of popular music on Europe's macro economy. The purpose of this paper is to identify a number of arguments that have been made that are provably false or present data that is contrary to other so-called [...]
For some time, at Perceptric we have been saying that P2P is the new payola of old physical distribution system. Wherein, the music industry receives the benefit of P2P down-loaders as word of mouth promoters of music to their peers and siblings. In fact in The Peering metrics of P2P we said: “To [...]
Many will have noticed that my extremely popular Top 50/Top 200 P2P listing is conspicuous in it’s absence over the last two weeks. Have I stopped collecting the statistics ? Nope, I analyse them every night before I go to sleep. So why, you may ask, am I not publishing the results ? [...]
The various statistics that abound indicate that 69% of the developed world is connecting to the Internet. My basic math’s ability tells me that at least 31% of the world is not connected to P2P. If our (and others) calculations are right and 57% of internet users are utilizing P2P software, then that [...]
We are noticing interesting anomalies between the ARIA charts and the P2P downloads. This could be due to the old analogue methodology that purchased music is accounted for and subsequently reported on in the Aria physical media charts. i.e.: the results of weekly sales from 1100 record stores around Australia are collected on a [...]
Sharing is a community thing and has been since the time of Adam. (Think Apple – Eve, not Jobs)But Ipoques’ latest report states that P2P file sharing is down 6.9% year on year.They go on to explain that the drop is balanced by http traffic from sites like Rapidshare. Users are moving to this kind [...]