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Young people won't stop illegal music downloads
A report by Jupiter Research suggests that the music industry may be facing a crisis because of the number of young people still illegally downloading music from the Internet. Seemingly, the problem has now grown so big that the numbers of young people who download music from illegal file-sharing websites outnumber those using legal services. In fact, it is estimated that illegal networks are used three times as much as legal ones, and that young people have little concept of music as a paid for commodity. Young people basically have just come to expect music for free, and don’t seem to see any good reason why they should pay for it. Is the music industry as we know it coming to an end?
Jupiter analyst Mark Mulligan said: "The digital youth of today are being brought up on a near limitless diet of free and disposable music from file-sharing networks. When these consumers age and increase spending power they should become key music buying consumers. Unless the music industry can transition these consumers whilst they are young away from free consumption to paid music formats, be they digital or CDs, they may never develop music purchasing behaviour and the recording industry could suffer long-term harm."
Jupiter analyst Mark Mulligan said: "The digital youth of today are being brought up on a near limitless diet of free and disposable music from file-sharing networks. When these consumers age and increase spending power they should become key music buying consumers. Unless the music industry can transition these consumers whilst they are young away from free consumption to paid music formats, be they digital or CDs, they may never develop music purchasing behaviour and the recording industry could suffer long-term harm."
User Comments (6)
Post a comment| CrossFire851 on November 29, 2005 10:07 PM | As long as(my dad always says this) " The Black Market"
exist there will always be illegal conspiracies. conspiracies-lol
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| enasni on November 30, 2005 7:58 AM | Downloading free music and movies and everything else on the
internet and in the known world has become second nature to
many people. Stealing isn't whats in there heads, just the simple excitment of getting something new. Not excitment that there not paying for it but just that feeling after you get something.
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| tomrice32 on November 30, 2005 10:10 AM | Personally I don't use illegal free networks anymore, mainly
due to the risks. I can see why music should be payed for.
But I think lots more people would be willing to pay for the
music if it was a reasonable price and if they can do what
they want with it. For example, you buy music in a shop and
it costs a lot of money, but you can do what you want with
it. You buy music online, it is very cheap, but you have DRM
restrictions (such as only playing it on your computer/iPod,
not being able to put on certain MP3 players, convert to
your preferred format etc). Another reason for buying music
illegally is for the availability and easiness of it.
Thankfully most music I like is now available to download on
pay sites like iTunes. If music is a) Available, b)
Reasonably Priced c) Free to use how you want to, I think
people will be more willing to pay. The music industry as we
know it doesn't have to collapse, it just has to improve and
adapt to the times. P2P-like Networks with no restrictions,
but where you pay money for copyrighted content? I myself usually use iTunes for all my music. It would just be nice if I could be free to play that music how I want to, without being restricted to apple products due to their DRM.
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| spike on November 30, 2005 10:59 AM | Seemingly, the problem has now grown so big that the
numbers of young people who download music from illegal
file-sharing websites outnumber those using legal
services Has anybody else noticed the flaw in this
statement?Those downloading music from "illegal" file sharing networks have ALWAYS outnumbered those doing it from "legal" services. Given this fact, the whole story becomes less about some new and profound realisation, and more about the fact that it's only now that the record companies have noticed a fact that was obvious even a few years ago. Maybe they were blinded by their greed?
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| mkatz2m on November 30, 2005 11:23 AM | Personally, I feel the music makers simply do not get it.
They would rather make music fans hate them and charge
rediculous prices. $1.00 a song with DRM restrictions is
not reasonable. If they started selling mp3 music of
something like .25 a song with no restrictions, then I would
make sure that myself and my child do not download from
illegal sites anymore and we would not share either. I
really think most people would act like I would and the
music companies/artists would make possibly more money than
they do now with a workable business model.
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| DragonMaster on November 30, 2005 4:38 PM | I don't like Apple's manners: Forcing you to use their computer, forcing you to use their portable player, DRM, 1$ a tune
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