iTunes more popular than God P2P

By C.K. Sample, III

News.com reports that a new study finds that iTMS is as popular or more popular than various P2P music file-sharing sitesservices. The iTMS tied with LimeWire and turned up second place to "P2P site WinMX, which was used by 2.1 million households to download music during the month."

The best sound byte in the article is from Russ Crupnick, president of the NPD Group's music and movies division, who says: "These (paid) digital download stores appear to have created a compelling and economically viable alternative to illegal file sharing."

Imagine that. Customers actually prefer to use technology to legally buy music over illegally pirating it. I seem to remember every study that wasn't falsified by the RIAA about music sharing online previous to this one stating the same exact thing. Now, if the RIAA, and Apple's switch to Intel DRM chips means that even more of consumer's fair use rights are infringed upon, this will probably change. 

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