Apple Ipod fans snub Itunes

MOST MUSIC found on mosts Apple Ipods is not downloaded from Apple's approved iTunes store, according to a report from Jupiter Research.

According to the study, reported by the BBC, your average Ipod user only has about 20 officially approved tracks and most of the rest are copied from a punter's own CD collection.

Only five per cent of the music on an Ipod will be bought from online music stores. The rest will be from CDs the owner of an MP3 player already has or tracks she or he have downloaded from file-sharing sites, the report claimed.

Ripping your own disks is perfectly legal, provided you don't give them to your mates. However, the findings do indicate that the Ipod revolution is being built on the purchase of CDs rather than downloading.

The report says that 83 per cent of Ipod owners do not buy digital music regularly. A minority, 17 per cent, buy and download music, usually single tracks, at least once per month.

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