Mobile music outstrips online
p2pnet.net News:- When the news broke that it was now possible to download tunes on mobile phones, the reaction was largely, Who`d want to listen to music on a cell-phone?
But, in Japan, at least, Music downloads via cell phones outpaced those to digital music players by a wide margin in Japan during the first six months of 2005, according to data released last week, says the IDG News Service.
Given the vast and growing number of downloads happening on the p2p networks, it doesn`t seem possible.
In July, in the US, the average number of people simultaneously logged on the networks at any one time was 6,872,768, says BigChampagne. And around the world, it was a staggering 9,496,203
But, Cell phone downloads including complete songs and ring tone melodies totaled 108.9 million songs during the first half of the year and were worth ¥13.6 billion (US$123 million as of June 30, the last day of the period), according to figures from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), says IDG.
In contrast, legal music downloads from the Internet to devices like portable music players totaled 2.2 million songs and were worth ¥538.8 million during the same period, the RIAJ said.
Ahhhhhh. Suddenly, it becomes clear ; ) Legal music downloads.
You could probably listen to all the tracks featured by the online corporate music `services` on one phone in about two hours.
Well, not quite. But you get the picture.
The Big Four music cartel is depriving itself and its shareholders of the potentially enormous profits to be offered by p2p and p2p technologies by trying to do business according to models designed for the physical 20th century. But we`re in the digital 21st century.
And instead of wooing their customers, the labels are suing them.
The `legal` downloads don`t amount to a hill of beans.
(Thanks, Lars)
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IDG News Service – Music downloads to phones dominate Japanese market, August 15, 2005
