{"id":2774,"date":"2013-02-28T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2013-02-28T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:27:50","slug":"npd-group-report-17-percent-fall-in-p2p-internet-music-piracy-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/npd-group-report-17-percent-fall-in-p2p-internet-music-piracy-for-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"NPD Group Report 17 Percent Fall in P2P Internet Music Piracy for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market research firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npd.com\" target=\"_blank\">NPD Group<\/a> has reported in its <strong>Annual Music Study 2012<\/strong> that the number of broadband ISP internet users using peer-to-peer (P2P) based file sharing services to &#8220;<em>illegally<\/em>&#8221; download music declined by 17% in 2012 to 21 million people (down from a peak of 33m in 2005).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the NPD&#8217;s latest data, the volume of &#8220;<em>illegally downloaded music files<\/em>&#8221; from P2P services also declined by 26% in 2012 and the volume of music downloads from digital lockers (e.g. &#8220;<em>cyber locker<\/em>&#8221; online file storage and sharing websites like Rapidshare etc.) decreased by 28%.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly some 40% of consumers who claimed to have illegally downloaded music via P2P in 2011 reported that they&#8217;d now stopped or were downloading less music. Apparently the &#8220;<em>primary reason<\/em>&#8221; for this reduced activity was an increased use of free and <strong>legal music streaming services<\/strong> like Spotify. But shutting down sites like Limewire and The Pirate Bay has also had an impact.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Russ Crupnick, NPD Industry Analysis, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>For the music industry, which has been battling digital piracy for over a decade, last year was a year of progress. Among other factors, the increased use of legal and licensed streaming services has proven to be an alternative for music fans who formerly used P2P networks to obtain music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In recent years, we\u2019ve seen less P2P activity, because the music industry has successfully used litigation to shut down Limewire and other services; many of those who continued to use P2P services reported poor experiences, due to rampant spyware and viruses on illegal P2P sites<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The figures follow shortly after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpi.co.uk\" target=\"_new\">British Phonographic Industry<\/a>, which represents the United Kingdom\u2019s music industry, reported \u201c<em>strong growth<\/em>\u201d from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/01\/uk-digital-music-sales-soar-despite-threat-from-isp-internet-piracy.html\" target=\"_blank\">digital music sales in 2012<\/a>. At the same time the BPI still questionably claims that around <strong>7 million UK people <\/strong>use at least one service \u201c<em>where content is hosted illegally<\/em>\u201d every month (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/bpi-claims-7-million-uk-people-use-illegal-internet-piracy-services.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market research firm NPD Group has reported in its Annual Music Study 2012 that the number of broadband ISP internet users using peer-to-peer (P2P) based file sharing services to &#8220;illegally&#8221; download music declined by 17% in 2012 to 21 million people (down from a peak of 33m in 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[473,46],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-censorship","tag-internet-piracy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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