Legal Downloads Growing Faster Than Piracy

Dec2211:35 PM

The recession is not driving music lovers to piracy. Just away from their CD players.

The volume of legal music downloaded in Q3 increased 29% over the same period a year ago. That beats the growth in illegal music downloads over peer-to-peer networks, which rose 23% y/y.

Full Story from the Silicon Alley Insider here.

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