Downloading Myth Challenged: P2P Users Among Music Industry's Best Customers, Reports Find; Music Industry Today Offers Extended News Coverage

Downloading Myth Challenged: P2P Users Among Music Industry's Best Customers, Reports Find; Music Industry Today Offers Extended News Coverage

WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- People who illegally share music files online are likely to spend four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than the average fan, UK-based market watcher The Leading Question (TLQ) claims.

Its report suggests that the music industry should stop taking legal action against file sharers and start focusing on enticing them to use legal alternatives.

In reaction to this event, Music Industry Today offers its readers comprehensive news coverage. See:

-- Music Industry News -- http://www.musicindustrytoday.com/category/MusicIndustry/pr -- Music Industry & Downloading News -- http://www.musicindustrytoday.com/news/Music-Industry-Downloading/pr

About Music Industry Today, http://www.musicindustrytoday.com/pr

Indexing thousands of articles from over 4,000 news sources, Music Industry Today provides the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute information available on the web regarding the music industry.

Music Industry Today is a resource for music industry professionals who need to follow the latest developments in technology, copyright wars, government actions affecting the industry, music genres, instruments, hundreds of individual artists, and much more.

In addition, Music Industry Today provides news summaries on major companies, such as Columbia Records, Napster or Warner Music, and specific issues such as The Rolling Stones Tour.

Unlike Google News, Music Industry Today focuses on pre-set newsfeeds edited by a team of experienced editors. It is published by the IPD Group which specializes in media monitoring services.

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The IPD Group's media monitoring and newsletter services are designed as alternatives to high cost services such as Lexis-Nexis and Factiva.

"Google offers a form of free news," says David Rothstein, CEO of the IPD Group. "On the other end of the spectrum, companies such as Lexis-Nexis charge thousands of dollars a year. We fit well in the niche-market data- mining space used by professionals."

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