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p2pnet.net news:- Around 50% of all Net users download and while young people are the most frequent downloaders, everyone across all age groups is into it with few discrepancies between the sexes.
Free downloading is expanding, especially through p2p networks, and dominates the field overall, and, “To some extent, it is pointless to put illegal and paid downloading into direct opposition, since paying customers are mostly to be found among users of P2P networks.”
These findings come in a new report from Médiamétrie//NetRatings which analyses ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ downloading of music, video and video games in America, England and France.
‘Legally’ downloaded files account for 15% of all files downloaded in France, 20% in Britain, and 25% in the USA, says the study, implying the numbers would be larger were it not for “scantiness of catalogue” and the fact neither listeners nor viewers are able to try before they buy.
Based on a survey of more 4,000 Net users, and tracking p2p software usage, the study measures the latest evolutions in p2p, along with figure-backed development scenarios for the downloading market as a whole, say the publishers.
Constantly developing p2p networks are becoming increasingly user-friendly and although several systems using p2p technology are currently available for ‘legal’ downloading of content, they haven’t been implemented on any large scale, says the study.
Three types of service compete for custom: international generalist sites, national sites and niche sites and in the paid music download sector, rentals now account for a growing share.
Emerging chains, such as the use of instant messaging, which is becoming a personal multimedia hub, blogs, anonymous online storage services, IRC, FTP servers and, lastly, private communities, are also gaining in popularity, and they’re gradually being opened up to mobile users, according to Médiamétrie//NetRatings.
When it comes to downloads, music occupies top place in spending, ahead of software, with people paying out e3.8 (today, about $5.50) in France, e7.3 (today, about $9.70) in the UK, and e5.2 (today, about $6.92) EUR in the USA per month on online content.
“In the countries included in the survey, an Internaut downloads between 53 and 73 files per quarter,” says the study. “The majority of downloads comprises Images and photos, followed by music.
And, it goes on, important fractors emerge:
Whether one is talking about ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’ downloads, which is “becoming common practice,” pay services are, “enjoying remarkable growth, not only in the music sector but also, more recently, in the fields of video and games”.
Computer are still the preferred platform for downloading content, the use of mobile phones remaining “marginal,” says the report, which predicts between now and 2010, a steady rise in the number of downloaders, “and a slightly faster increase in the number of Internauts willing to pay for downloads, and thus in the proportion of paid download files”.
The introduction of flat-rate offers is a key factor in the development of the market, it states, continuing, “flat-rate offers should account for over 60% of the total market by 2010.”
Challenges for the content industry?
1 - To apprehend downloading as a basic element of the digital home ecosystem.
2 - To introduce downloading offers in a community perspective..
3 - To promote the use of service payment models rather than content payment models.
4 - To incorporate advertising models into downloading services..
5 - To promote unlimited downloading options.
6 - To go in for service and equipment interoperability.
7 - To take into account the potentially negative impact of media chronology on the control of downloading.
Included in the study were: ABC; Ants P2P; Ares Galaxy; Audiogalaxy network; Azureus; BearShare; BitComet; BitLord; BitSpirit; BitTornado; BitTorrent; Blubster; Bullguard; DC++; eDonkey; eMule; FileTopia; Freenet; FreeWire; Frost; G3 Torrent; Gift; Gnucleus; Grokster; IMesh; Kazaa; LimeWire; Mammoth; Mercora; MojoNation; Morpheus; Napigator; NeoNapster; Overnet; PeerCast; Piolet; Shareaza; Soulseek; WinMX; and, Xolo.
Also See:
Médiamétrie//NetRatings - Download Monitoring: Web users’ downloading behaviour and consumption patterns, March, 2007
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