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Digital Reactive
05-05-2004, 01:56 PM
User change from KaZaA to other exchange stock exchanges

Washington (PSE, 03 May 2004 11:10) - the Download of music via music exchange stock exchanges rises in the USA again easily. After the user complaints the music lobby RIAA in the autumn yearly passed had decreased/gone back clearly the use of on-line exchange stock exchanges such as KaZaA. Now the number the exchange stock exchange user rises again, as from a telephone inquiry of the Pew InterNet & American Life Project comes out http://www.pewinternet.org. Between 3 February and 1 March 2004 among 1.371 InterNet users starting from 18 years accomplished inquiry determines an easy rise. Some user of KaZaA on exchange stock exchanges like iMesh, BitTorrent and eMule obviously yield out, the fewer in the visor of the music industry.

The last Pew inquiry immediately after the complaints of the RIAA determined a significant decrease with the use of exchange stock exchanges. In November and December 2003 indicated only 14 per cent of the asked ones to load music of unauthorized exchange stock exchanges on their non removable disks (see PSE http://www.pressetext.at/pte.mc?pte=040105006 ). In the spring 2003, before the first complaints, the number the user of KaZaA & CO was to the music industry still about 29 per cent. Now the portion is with 18 per cent, which nevertheless corresponds to an increase of 18 millions in numbers in December 2003 on 23 million user in February 2004.

Large loser is KaZaA, to which more than five million user said good-bye. A part this user seems to obviously turn now to different exchange stock exchanges. A significant rise is to be recognized particularly with smaller P2P-Netzewerken. Like that a clear rise is http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent with the user numbers of BitTorrent and eMule http://www.emule project.net to recognize since beginning of the year. Also WinMX http://www.winmx.com keeps the user numbers relatively constant, while KaZaA and Grokster lose. Nevertheless indicate 38 per cent to suck less music than before the RIAA complaints from the net.

The popularity of commercial music services lies still far behind that one of the exchange stock exchanges. Only sieve per cent of all InterNet users (however 17 per cent the exchange stock exchange user) already music with the new offerers bought. The number one is Apples of iTunes with more than 2.3 million visitors in March 2004. (end)