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Half the music on iPods stolen, alleges Real

11. May 2006, 23:15 Uhradmin

Step forward to May 2006, and UK newspaper The Guardian quotes Real’s Glaser thus: “About half the music on iPods is music obtained illegitimately either from an illegal peer-to-peer networks or from ripping friends’ CDs, which is illegal.”

Presumably he doesn’t consider that iPod owners might have ripped their own CDs. That’s technically illegal too, in the UK at least, but certainly not in the same league as downloading stuff via P2P networks.

Based on anecdotal evidence, most of the songs on iPods - and, for that matter, all the other players from other manufacturers - do indeed come from users’ own record collections. That, as Glaser reckons, “the average number of songs sold for the iPod is 25″, is largely a result of iPods owners rediscovering CDs they bought years ago and haven’t listened to until they were ripped. Apple’s rising ITMS sales - Rhapsody’s too - suggest that iPod owners are starting to spend more money on downloads.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/11/half_ipod_music_stolen_real_says/

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.