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p2pnet.net news:- More than one billion songs a day are shared online as mp3s, says a new IDC white paper.
And that’s a conservative estimate, it says.
More than a billion a day? In an unsupported statistic, Apple says it’s managed to hawk around two billion downloads since it started in 2003. And Apple is, to all intents and purposes, the only corporate music site worth mentioning.
Big Music shareholders must be sick to their stomachs as they watch the major record label executives (who are presumably paid to represent their financial interests) turn a silk purse into a sow’s ear.
The mind-boggling statistic was arrived at by assessing the total number of new songs created, “which we assumed were created in a large file-format CD for distribution,” says The Expanding Digital Universe.
Songs in mp3 format were considered replication and, “We estimated the number of legal song sales (CD and Web distribution) and added a conservative estimate of songs illegally distributed,” says the paper.
“It is quite possible that we were too conservative in our estimate of illegally shared songs over peer-to-peer networks.”
Meanwhile, in 2006, information equal to three million times the amount of information in all the books ever written went online, says the study: 161 exabytes, in other words, an exabyte being one quintillion bytes or a billion gigabytes.
Between 2006 and 2010, the information added annually to the digital universe will increase more than six fold to 988 exabytes, it predicts.
And this year the amount of information created will for the first time go beyond the storage capacity available.
“Three major analog to digital conversions are powering this growth – film to digital image capture, analog to digital voice, and analog to digital TV,” says IDC
What makes up the largest part of all this information?
Pictures.
“Images, captured by more than 1 billion devices in the world, from digital cameras and camera phones to medical scanners and security cameras, comprise the largest component of the digital universe,” says the study. “They are replicated over the Internet, on private organizational networks, by PCs and servers, in data centers, in digital TV broadcasts, and on digital projection movie screens.”
About a quarter of the digital universe is original (pictures recorded, keystrokes in an email, phone calls), while three quarters is replicated (emails forwarded, backed up transaction records, Hollywood movies on DVD), the paper goes on.
In other key findings, by 2010, while nearly 70% of the digital universe will be created by individuals, organizations (businesses of all sizes, agencies, governments, associations, etc) will be responsible for the security, privacy, reliability, and compliance of at least 85% of that same digital universe, IDC says.
But the growth of the digital universe is uneven.
“Emerging economies - Asia Pacific without Japan and the rest of the world outside North America and Western Europe - now account for 10% of the digital universe, but will grow 30%-40% faster than mature economies.”
And, “Stay tuned,” says The Expanding Digital Universe, adding:
“There is still an information universe beyond the digital universe. The use of paper in the world is still increasing (nearly 5% in the last five years). But we have clearly hit a threshold - where the digital universe is now pervasive enough to be a major locale for commerce, education, social interaction, and entertainment.
“It’s only going to get bigger.”
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March 8th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Think of the scads of money the labels could be making if they were smart instead of dumb
March 8th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
I don’t want the cartels products. I dislike the way they have done business and are continuing to do so. I hate the cartels’ pet dogs, the **AA’s.
The day they started the sue’em alls is the day I swore off ever buying their products again. I know beyond doubt I’m not the only one on boycott but I also suspect that more are beginning to see the light of not wanting the cartels product anymore.
DRM, poor quality offers, poor entertainers that are made for a period of time (notice I don’t call them artists), limited value of the radio in only hearing replay city, the constant greed of the industry always attempting to get more for less, the labeling of their own customer base as pirates, the lack of any sort of refund policy, the schemes to insert some sort of rootkit or other malware into users computers, the constant bombardment in the media of public opinion trials against those they accuse of infringement, the intrusion into public schools with lame and slanted info dealing with product protection, the constant intrusion into government with their bought legislators, (producing laws that only favor them while putting the rest of the country in peril for infringement and reducing our options to tech advanced products), the extension of copyright lengths (assuring we will never see something copyrighted in our lifetime released to public domain), the attempt at raising prices for tech products because they contain hard drives or other storage devices and the robbing of everyone that does business with them from artist to customer (and everyone inbetween). The list is long and just continues to lengthen.
The sooner these vampires on the neck of entertainment are gone, the better. Before someone asks me what I would do about this or that problem with the entertainment industry, let me state plainly. Nothing would please me more than locking the whole sheebang in a wooden barn, barring the doors, and burning it to the ground in hopes that some reincarnation might actually understand what the customer wants.
The sooner these idiots are out of culture the better off the public would be.
March 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I forgot to add that the cartels are constantly turning new people off from their products and will at this rate turn another generation into non-customers as they pursue this insane idea of suing college kids.
At this rate give them a few more years and they won’t be able to give away their products. No one will want them.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:38 am
I absolutely agree with you 100%! The cartels are not protecting the artists as they claim with these suits and mis-information schemes…they are trying to protect THEMSELVES!
But more and more people including influencial people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are actually starting to speak out aginst DRM!
I think as time goes on, the way companies impliment DRM will have them to either change or die.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:56 am
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