File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study.The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music charts.There was little evidence that file-sharing sites helped unsigned and new bands find an audience, it found.It suggests file-sharing sites are becoming an alternative broadcast network comparable to radio stations as a way of hearing music.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049495.stmAlso see:P2P study: Music crackdown is bad for business
A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money.Entitled “The Long Tail of P2P”, the study by Will Page of performing rights society PRS For Music and Eric Garland of P2P research outfit Big Champagne will be aired at The Great Escape music convention tomorrow. It’s a follow-up to Page’s study last year which helped debunk the myth of the “Long Tail”. Page examined song purchases at a large online digital retail store, which showed that out of an inventory of 13 million songs, 10 million had never been downloaded, even once. It suggested that the idea proposed by WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson, who in 2004 urged that the future of business was digital retailers carrying larger inventories of slow-selling items was a Utopian fantasy.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/13/long_tail_p2p/
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