p2pnet - rss feed: New p2p file sharing stats
p2pnet.net News:- The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) claims repeatedly that its ongoing sue ‘em all campaign against former customers is working - that it’s resulting in a significant reduction of p2p file sharing activity in the US.
Below are the latest statistics from Big Champagne, the market research and marketing consulting firm specializing in p2p technology.
They show the average number of p2p users who were simultaneously online on all p2p networks at any given moment in the US between August, 2003, and October 15, 2004.
- August, 2003 - 2,630,960
- September, 2003 - 2,891,645
- October, 2003 - 3,764,032
- November, 2003 - 2,498,431
- December, 2003 - 3,239,298
- January, 2004 - 3,528,419
- February, 2004 - 4,039,989
- March, 2004 - 4,603,571
- April, 2004 - 4,688,988
- May, 2004 - 4,589,255
- June, 2004 - 4,583,920
- July, 2004 - 4,584,111
- August, 2004 - 4,549,801
- September, 2004 - 4,687,536
- October 15, 2004 - 4,771,060
Draw your own conclusions.
And here are Big C’s global stats.
- August, 2003 - 3,847,565
- September, 2003 - 4,319,182
- October, 2003 - 6,142,507
- November, 2003 - 4,392,816
- December, 2003 - 5,602,384
- January, 2004 - 6,046,998
- February, 2004 - 6,831,366
- March, 2004 - 7,370,644
- April, 2004 - 7,639,479
- May, 2004 - 7,286,377
- June, 2004 - 7,401,431
- July, 2004 - 7,115,975
- August, 2004 - 6,822,312
- September, 2004 6,784,574
- October 15, 2004 - 6,729,430
Through its various enforcement organs, the Big Four cartel also claims its members, their artists and support workers are suffering great financial and personal hardship because of the depredations of p2p file sharers, characterized by the music industry as hard-core criminals.
These very ordinary people are epitomized by the 5,700 mothers, fathers and their children who have been singled out for Special Attention by the RIAA’s heavyweight legal teams, and the 459 people in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and, for the first time, in Austria who are being similarly victimized by the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industries).
Senior EFF ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) staff attorney Fred von Lohmann waded through the EUR Commission report green-lighting the Sony-BMG merger and noted a rather interesting paragraph, to wit:
59. Recently, there have been several indications, confirmed by the expectations of small and large record companies, that the decline trend is decelerating and that demand is likely to stabilize. According to the IFPI, the U.S. market for recorded music saw a recovery in the second half of 2003 which continued in the early months of 2004. EMI announced that it expects total world-wide sales in 2004 to be between stable and minus 4%. Sony expects the music market to decrease by [x%] in 2004, by [y%; with y<x] in 2005 and to be […] in 2006. BMG prepares forecasts for the different EEA countries. On average, BMG expects a decline in sales in the EEA by [0-5%] in 2004, […] revenues in 2005 and […] growth in 2006. Also several responses to the Commission’s market investigation expect a stabilisation of demand in the near future also in the EEA. The recovery of the industry is also confirmed by the growing profitability of the Parties’ music businesses: Sony Music was profitable in the business year through 31 March 2004, and Bertelsman announced that the fourth quarter 2003 and the first quarter 2004 have been BMG’s most successful quarters ever.”
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See:-
ordinary people - Big Music vs Ordinary Folks, p2pnet, August 20, 2004
October 23rd, 2004 at 1:01 am
“Bertelsman announced that the fourth quarter 2003 and the first quarter 2004 have been BMG’s most successful quarters ever.”
But that was before they had to make deductions for all the losses caused by the SOB file sharers and their kids.
Morg
October 23rd, 2004 at 8:13 am
Except they can’t deduct anything: it is already the balance.
It’s not like they’re giving off money to p2p sharers.
Although they actually could and still make a profit.
Simple unadulterated greed.
They’re making money hand over fist and they have to face
the fact that far from harming the market p2p boost it.
October 23rd, 2004 at 3:14 pm
I still cant understand one thing when they mention that each song that is downloaded is a lost sale.
If you think about it, even with simple logic, (and no reasearch and stats are needed). Songs are sold, on cds with 12 - 20 tracks on each cd. So how can if someone download 1 track named a that he likes from CDnamed XYZ, I cant see the connection how can 1 track, loose the sale of 1 cd, i.e. A lost sale as the RIAA claims.
October 23rd, 2004 at 4:05 pm
That’s something we’ve been asking since Day One - How does a download equal a lost sale? And it’s one of those questions the RIAA, et al, never seem to find time to answer.
In the meanwhile, —it would take 5,000 downloads to reduce the sales of an album by one copy—
http://p2pnet.net/story/1171
Cheers!
October 24th, 2004 at 3:31 am
Keep up the good work Jon, You need your own cable program like real time with bill marr (although he is in the industies pocket so that’s a horrible analogy)… I wish you would do a column on who we should and should not vote for in terms of file sharing in the US. I know people would flame that statement and say that it’s stupid to base your political decisions on file sharing, but when you look at the scum like Hatch, you really wish there was a list for anyone to referance all the way up to the president. Anyone who’s in bed with these criminal mafias cannot be helpful in our government. I used to be a democrat until I found out that Clinton was behind the DMCA and I won’t even start on Hillary. I bet young people would vote if they knew it would help us to distroy all the **AA’s that keep distroying our freedom. Just remember Jon, what the US does, Canada will soon follow. I called a lawyer about moving my company to Canada and he told me it wouldn’t be much of a shield against RIAA pursuit of filesharing companies. Any personal advise on or history of filesharing companies in Canada would be a great article as well. Anyway, keep up the good work. I read nearly everyday, and I always catch up on anything I missed. Great stuff. Ohh, and sell T-Shirts man, I’d buy one.
October 24th, 2004 at 4:54 pm
Thanks a lot - much appreciated.
On the T-shirts, I’m definitely going to do that. Right now, though, I’m a bit pre-occupied with a couple of other developments which are going to make a big difference to p2pnet.
What this space. heh
Cheers!