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...represented among the young (especially among those under 24), among men, and people educated beyond the age of 20....
...Its online missteps, from suing downloaders to letting Apple’s dominant iTunes store dictate pricing, are so well charted that few outsiders would look to the music business for case studies in how to market...
...A month after the album came out a survey suggested 62 per cent of In Rainbows’ downloaders chose to pay nothing for it....
...Reviewing it, one nameless downloader said it was “a great source of reference with an easy-to-use interface and many excellent photographs”....
...For every track bought online, 20 were downloaded illegally last year, according to IFPI, the international music industry lobby group....
...The format of the album is threatened as downloaders pick only favourite tracks for their MP3 players....
...An estimated 19 out of 20 downloads from the internet are made for free on illegal sites....
...report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry suggested that of the download transactions which are now the world’s default mechanism for the distribution of new music, 19 out of 20...
...Early activity on Wednesday suggested that about 50 per cent of new downloaders submitted a valid e-mail address, and many also made a payment....
...The fastest speed currently available in the UK is 20 mbps....
...Teenagers are the keenest downloaders and these are their favourite genres, so future hit singles are most likely to continue in the same vein....
...Only one in five legal music downloaders is also an illegal file-swapper,” the IFPI said....
...iTunes has 40 per cent of the French digital music download market ahead of Virgin-Mega, which has 30 per cent, and Fnac, which has 20 per cent....
...But compared with Apple’s sales of more than 30m iPods over the same period, that adds up to just 20 songs per iPod....
...However, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry also warned that the upsurge was largely thanks to new downloaders while most illegal filesharers were not migrating on to authorised sites,...
...Using route-tracing technology that tracks data in its journey across the trunks and elbows of the internet, he can even pinpoint the latitude and longitude of a downloader to within 10 miles....
...One of the original trustees of Live Aid 20 years ago, he helped Sir Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith put together the Live8 concert and campaign for debt relief this summer....
...It can also be downloaded from Opera’s website for $39 by users of 20 other smartphones. The company says about 1m have been downloaded....
...It emerged this week that the group had approached Vivendi Universal, its French peer, as a potential white knight to save it from the clutches of Electronic Arts, the US giant that last month bought a 20...
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