"European consumers who download music from illegal file-sharing websites outnumber those using legal services," says the BBC
"Ilegal networks are used three times as much as legal ones. It also warns that file-sharers, particularly young people, have little concept of music as a paid commodity."
The Organized Music cartel sue 'em all marketing campaign and over-pricing continue to drive music fans in their hundreds of millions away from the corporate music services it supplies into the arms of sites such as allofmp3.com and the p2p networks. Jupiter Research produced the report and the Beeb has the company's Mark Mulligan saying, "The digital youth of today are being brought up on a near limitless diet of free and disposable music from file-sharing networks. "When these consumers age and increase spending power they should become key music buying consumers." And they would if only Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI and the growing list of phony corporate 'p2p' companies stopped trying to rip people off by demanding a dollar and more for highly condensed, and therefore lossy, digital music tracks.
"Unless the music industry can transition these consumers whilst they are young away from free consumption to paid music formats, be they digital or CDs, they may never develop music purchasing behaviour and the recording industry could suffer long-term harm," says Mulligan.
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