Web users turn to legal downloads
26 July 2005
The recording industry has released new data, which suggests that the number of legal downloads tripled to 180 million worldwide during the first half of the year.
The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) estimates that, as legal downloads have boomed, incidents of illegal file-sharing have risen just three per cent over the six months from January 2005 to 30 million tracks.
Legal music downloads in the first half of 2005 in the US, the UK, Germany and France outstripped the total for the whole of 2004 and the number of songs legally downloaded from the internet in the UK during 2005 recently topped the 10 million mark..
More than one in three file-sharers surveyed in the US and UK said that the main reason they had stopped downloading music files illegally was "fear of legal action", after the music industry launched a campaign of legal action against illicit file-sharing.
"We are now seeing real evidence that people are increasingly put off by illegal file-sharing and turning to legal ways of enjoying music online," said John Kennedy, chairman of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI).
"Whether it's the fear of getting caught breaking the law, or the realisation that many networks could damage your home PC, attitudes are changing, and that is good news for the whole music industry."
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