- About 23 percent continue to pirate music, but this number is dwindling.
23% is hardly dwindling. With margin of error it could easily be over a quarter of all consumers.
This doesn't take into account, non-legal ways of acquiring music that are not classically "sharing" like you tube and sound cloud
Methods of collecting this information are often as reliable as alexa is for page rankings.
And MOST IMPORTANTLY none of this directly means anything for the bottom line of the artists. Piracy goes down, but middle men go up, middle men win.
- About 23 percent continue to pirate music, but this number is dwindling.
23% is hardly dwindling. With margin of error it could easily be over a quarter of all consumers.
This doesn't take into account, non-legal ways of acquiring music that are not classically "sharing" like you tube and sound cloud
Methods of collecting this information are often as reliable as alexa is for page rankings.
And MOST IMPORTANTLY none of this directly means anything for the bottom line of the artists. Piracy goes down, but middle men go up, middle men win.