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P2P users are the music and movie industries' best friends
A NEW SURVEY by Vuze, maker of one of the most popular BitTorrent clients, shows that P2P users are actually the movie and music industries' best customers.
According to Ars Technica, while P2P users might share files online that originated from the entertainment industries, they are more likely to spend money on entertainment offline.
Frank Magid Associates conducted the survey, which contacted 693 Vuze users and 606 Internet users, all Americans, aged between 18 and 44.
Apparently these users buy more movie tickets, rent more films and pay for more DVDs than most people on the world wide wibble.
In a typical year a Vuze user will go to the flicks eight times, whereas the average non-Vuze punter will go out to a movie only six times. A Vuze user will rent nine movies a year, while a non-P2P user will rent only seven.
While a Vuze user apparently can 'pirate' every movie in the world, they will buy about 16 DVDs a year. Most Internet users will buy only 13 DVDs.
What is not surprising is that P2P users will not pay for content online. Perhaps that might be because they see their filesharing as a way to try before they buy.
They also do not like any DRM that is placed on content. They would much rather buy a disc without any of that nasty stuff on it. µ
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The Inquirer was a bastard child - born out of the Magee's vitriolic split from The Register
Once seen as the most powerful source of tech news and gossip, it has now sadly decided that 'enough is enough' and The Inquirer (as we know and love/loath it) is no more
Seems that Incisive media's deep pockets mean that getting sued is a distinct possibility - so the staff have been canned and the days of cracking/insightful journalism are now behind us
If it continues at all - then all we can expext are more of these sad-arsed P2P stories that no one cares about - and which certainly do nothing to stimulate the heart/loins/legal teams
If anyone knows where the Spirit of Magee will reside next, then please let us know and we can all change our home pages
l'Inq R.I.P.
We loved you best.
Ooooh! The rare eloquent troll! How articulate! How creative! A must in every website!
If you have nothing substantive to say please save us the vitriol, wouldya?
Anyone who bothered to login to hermitscave once in awhile would know where Magee and friends are nowadays...
Sure is troll in here.
Broadwick Street remain tight-lipped on the subject, insisting that The Inquirer is still alive and kicking.
Whether that is just a semiaccurate.com rumour remains to be seen.
The TRUE picture wil be revealed by how long it takes for us to read another story from 'Babelicious' Barak.
If Barak is Banned, then Inq has been Binned.
That's all from the ex-pat(sies?) at Checkers Pizza and Ribs at 4157 Hamilton Avenue.
I'm off to check local liability laws...
naw, just incompetent people like yourself
I shall continue to peruse l'INQ as long as they continue providing a forum for Charlie D., and Sylvie.
Granted, Sylvie is much more attractive than Charlie, but the INQ would not be worth reading without either.
I love you!
I am relly saddened with the Inq reporting the last little while, especially with regards to the coverage of Computex which is a really important event in the IT industry.All we get is just a rehash of announcements that all the other tech sites reported the day before,nothing on any products featured at Computex or anything worth reading about in my opinion.Look at the words up top under the Inquirer name:News, reviews, facts and friction. Charlie you are the only one that tries to live up to all of them. I read the Inq every am , it used to take over half an hour, but now only about five minutes. Very sad. (sorry didn't mean to rant so much).
I download alot i have about 3.3TB of HD movies, but i recently went to see Star Trek in a digital theater, and the quality was amazing. Even beter then watching HD movies at home on my 1080p TV. Because of this i will be going to the theater more because finially they are up to standards, the old film movies are horriable.
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Bodies is buried around the globe
Incisive behavious if you ask the hitman
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MPAA.
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