![]() ![]() 10 times Panic's daily average).The state of pop-punk/emo in 2005: it's hip to be self-aware. How big? More than double the top torrent through March and May (Panic At The Disco's Pretty Odd) got in a whole week (ie. In Rainbows torrent downloads peaked on the first day data was collected, October 27, at 400,000 - what Page and Garland call "a bloody big number". ![]() The research, by MCPS-PRS chief economist Will Page and Big Champagne CEO Eric Garland, said discoverability may have been a factor, citing early teething troubles with Radiohead's website as one reason freeloaders stuck with P2P.īut that's wishful thinking. The bottom line is that legal free was trumped by illegal free. ![]() ![]() Why? Maybe so many people are already downloading the rest of their albums from torrents, they simply couldn't be arsed to type in their browser. A research paper from P2P monitor Big Champagne and the UK's MCPS-PRS royalty collection society said the "staggering" number " far exceeds what outsiders have reported as the estimated download total from the bands official website, regardless of whether those downloaders paid or not". Some 2.3 million people skanked Radiohead's latest album from BitTorrent sources during the two months it was legally available for free. This story was written by Robert Andrews. ![]()
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