Legal Music Downloads - by Paul Potnuru
According to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), legal music downloading has tripled in the first half of the year 2005
In the major European countries like France, Germany and the UK track sales have increased dramatically. Sales in the first half of 2005 reached approximately 180 million from January to June of 2005, as compared to the sale of 57 million tracks in the first half of 2004 and only 157 million for the whole of 2004. There have been around 10 million single-track downloads UK, up by at least ten times from the same period in 2004.
The IFPI said that this shows that more and more people are turning to legal sources of online music like: iTunes and Real Rhapsody and moving away from illegal File-Sharing and Peer2Peer due to concerns over possible damage to home computers from viruses, or the worry of being caught.
With a predicted 300 online music sites, the legal online music system is said to be successful. The IFPI emphasized that strong legal action against file sharers would continue. The IFPI claims that there are over 900 million illegally copied tracks in P2P (Peer-2-Peer) network, which is approximately a 3% rise in illegal downloads from last year.
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