p2pnet.net News:- Here`s a Reuters slash Hollywood Reporter item, and we quote:

Around 35% of music consumers now download tracks legally via the Internet and the percentage will soon pass the 40% who have pirated music, according to a new survey released Monday by Entertainment Media Research.

The online research company used data collected from 4000 music consumers to compile the 2006 Digital Music Survey in association with media law firm Olswang.

Fear of prosecution, Internet viruses, and inferior quality were cited as the main deterrents against illegal downloading, the report said. Nearly two-thirds of music consumers said immediate availability was the key reason for buying tracks online.

“The findings indicate that the music industry is approaching a strategic milestone with the population of legal downloaders close to exceeding that of pirates,” Entertainment Media Research chief executive Russell Hart said.

John Enser, senior partner at Olswang, added in a statement: “Clear deterrents to illegal downloading are emerging, with fear of prosecution running high, and close behind is the sense that unauthorized downloading is ‘not fair on the artists,’ suggesting that the industry’s messages, led by the British Phonographic Industry, are being communicated effectively.”

Everyone knows the Hollywood Reporter is, well, the Hollywood reporter. But isn’t Reuters supposed to be a high-class, unbiased agency handling the news fairly and honestly?

Then again, world media standards are falling through the floor. Take The Times and the BBC for example.

And anyway, as we`ve said often enough, you can’t expect fair-and-square reporting from outlets that are largely either owned directly or indirectly by, or depend on ad-cash from, the entertainment and software cartels. That’d be like biting the hands that feed you.

But the Reuters story is beyond the pale. And Entertainment Media Research must have come out of the same barrel as the NPD.

Here`s part of what Bob Lefsetz had to say on it.

This is the kind of circle jerk bullshit spread like oil from the Exxon Valdez all over the media to try and insure the labels’ business PLAN comports with reality.

And >>>>

They believe if they just say it again and again, it will be true. Counting on the ignorance of the media to repeat their message. I mean I’m no conspiracy theorist, I’m not someone who believes major media gets it wrong ALL the time, but when I read this detritus in Reuters it DOES make me wonder what happened to reporting. I mean with so much bottom line pressure, news outlets have cancelled anybody who does research, anybody who thinks, to the point where distortions and lies are printed constantly. I mean if the “New York Times” apologizes for not getting the Iraq story right do you think the media might not be getting it right on P2P/new distribution methods?

This is the world we live in. Where smiling figureheads of monied corporations create the truth they want. It just plain sucks.

It do indeed.

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See:-
Reuters slash Hollywood Reporter – More music consumers using legal downloads, June 20, 2005
The Times and the BBC – The Big Lie: Part II, p2pnet, June 8, 2004
fair-and-square – Don’t ‘piss off’ the labels, p2pnet, June 24, 2004
NPD – ‘iTunes is beating LimeWire’, p2pnet, June 7, 2005

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