BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart (a/o February 10th):
1. “What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger),” Kelly Clarkson
2. “Set Fire to the Rain,” Adele
3. “Turn Me On,” David Guetta
4. “Rack City,” TYGA
5. “Good Feeling,” Flo Rida
6. “Smooth Criminal (Glee Cast Version),” Glee Cast
7. “Young, Wild & Free,” Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa
8. “Domino ,” Jessie J
9. “Sexy and I Know It,” LMFAO
10. “Ass Back Home ,” Gym Class Heroes
Will music fans pay for anything? The answer is of course yes, especially for the bands they absolutely love. But in many situations, the answer is definitely no, especially on platforms built around free. And, 'competing with free' has never been more difficult.
In one recent survey from the University of Ballarat in Australia, BitTorrent trackers were found to contain about 0.3 percent legitimate content. Theoretically, BitTorrent can carry any type of content, but in practice, the platform almost exclusively transports copyrighted material according to the finding.
Elsewhere, another donut popped up in relation to Twitter. This time, a study by USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism found that 0 percent of Twitter users would pay to use the service if a paywall were put in place. "Such an extreme finding that produced a zero response underscores the difficulty of getting internet users to pay for anything that they already receive for free," directory Jeffrey Cole relayed.
Looks like MySpace Music is making the right call.
Comments Closed
Vurbal Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The BitTorrent study you refer to has been thoroughly debunked on TorrentFreak:
http://torrentfreak.com/tech-news-sites-tout-misleading-bittorrent-piracy-study-100724/
NathanJE Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Not so fast. Paul Watters of research team already defended. Sounds like typical research debates.
I quote:
Thank you for your enquiry regarding our research report "Investigation into the extent of infringing content on BitTorrent networks". As researchers, we not only stand by the findings that we have arrived at, but - having made our methodology public - we are providing other bona fide researchers to replicate and/or dispute our findings. Their results can in turn be assessed through the peer review process; this is the process that normal research activity takes.
You have raised some interesting points that are fundamental to the validitiy of any study in this area: the sampling strategy; verification of results and so on. We believe that our methodology was rigorously applied to the sample that we obtained. Over time, we will replicate the sampling process, so that we will gain better estimates of the population results. This is the fundamental tenet of statistical sampling.
J Madsen Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Great policitian inspired response by Watters, i.e using careful language to skip round the real issue.
Where does he say "Me and my team managed to count 100,000,000 BitTorrent peers that don't exist in our research because we naively included dozens of fake torrents"
Nowhere.
Which is sad, because that's what happened.
It takes a great man to admit that he's wrong........
Draw your own conclusions, but do read the Torrentfreak article in doing so. It makes a mockery of the 'study' and it's as plain as the nose on your face, just look at the list of torrents and check them for yourself on any big torrent site.
NathanJE Tuesday, July 27, 2010
OK, point taken. But cmon - do you really think the percentage of legal content being traded is much higher? I mean, are people relally using bit torrent to trade copyright free songs? I'd give the real % maybe 1%
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