Mike Hales

Yet more evidence that Kazaa – once the undispute champion of filesharing – is fast falling down the ranks. P2P monitoring firm BayTSP has released a report showing that eDonkey has now taken over from Kazaa as the biggest filesharing network, with an average of 2.5 million users online every day compared to 2.4 million […]

Whichever way you look at it the latest survey of online music behaviour from NPD Group makes for worrying reading. The headline stats are that whilst legal downloading is down in the US, unlicensed file sharing is back up again. The number of consumers paying for downloads fell to nearly one million users per month […]

Entertainment Media Research estimate that individual d/loads is the most popular form of digital music currently. 69% of men and 60% of women favoured buying on a track-by-track basis. iTunes was the most recognised place to buy music online legally.

eBay experimenting with d/loads through an alliance with Pass Along Networks. Catalogue of 200k tracks, WMA format, likely tor each 500k tracks thro indie label deal. Incldes free music carrot for users to draw other users.