Comments on: Spotify: Aussie Music Piracy Down 20% The Year After Our Launch http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Chris /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237444 Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:27:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237444 The graph means nothing. I want to see the 2 years before Spotify came to play. Gotta remember that the average person only has one testicle, and statistics are just that.

Personally, since taking up Google’s All Access music service, my music piracy has dropped dramatically, but so have my music purchases.

]]> By: Music Publishing News Weekly Roundup 9.12.14: Spotify Video Ads, ASCAP Workshop, ACM Honors | Planet 6 String /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237389 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:47:39 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237389 […] Music Piracy has dropped by 20% in Australia. Spotify has always had the goal of competing with torrent and filesharing websites for music. because of this, they heavily monitor piracy rates for any new market they enter. After the platfor finished their first year of operation in Australia, they reported a 20% drop in piracy. Will Page, Spotify’s Director of Economics determined this drop was mostly due to casual file-sharers while heavy pirates remained active. They also determined that BitTorrent users in Australia decreased. […]

]]> By: DTNS 2320 – Spooning With Google | Tom Merritt All Audio Feed /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237204 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 05:37:12 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237204 […] you Australian music fans out there. TorrentFreak reports on new research from Spotify that says music piracy via BitTorrents has decreased in that country by twenty percent since Spotify launched …. The drop was mostly driven by casual file-sharers; Spotify says the number of hard-core pirates […]

]]> By: DTNS 2320 – Spooning With Google | Tom Merritt .com /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237194 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:58:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237194 […] you Australian music fans out there. TorrentFreak reports on new research from Spotify that says music piracy via BitTorrents has decreased in that country by twenty percent since Spotify launched …. The drop was mostly driven by casual file-sharers; Spotify says the number of hard-core pirates […]

]]> By: Pesquisa diz que pirataria de música caiu 20% na Austrália após lançamento do Spotify | Livre Navegar /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237193 Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:06:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237193 […] [com informações de TorrentFreak] […]

]]> By: Music Publishing News Weekly Roundup: September 12th, 2014 | Songtrust /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237094 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:02:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237094 […]   […]

]]> By: DTNS 2320 – Spooning With Google | Daily Tech News Show /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237093 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:33:14 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237093 […] you Australian music fans out there. TorrentFreak reports on new research from Spotify that says music piracy via BitTorrents has decreased in that country by twenty percent since Spotify launched …. The drop was mostly driven by casual file-sharers; Spotify says the number of hard-core pirates […]

]]> By: Copywrong » Yet More Evidence That Offering Good Legal Alternatives Reduces Music Piracy /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237092 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:02:30 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237092 […] One of the most frustrating aspects of the copyright industry’s insistence on pushing for harsher measures to reduce the number of illegal downloads is that we know it’s simply unnecessary. As Techdirt has reported, there is mounting evidence that the best way to reduce piracy is to offer good legal alternatives. TorrentFreak has news of another data point supporting this idea: […]

]]> By: Links 11/9/2014: Linux Toilet Project, Linux-Based Wheelchair Project | Techrights /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237090 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:59:37 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237090 […] Spotify: Aussie Music Piracy Down 20% The Year After Our Launch […]

]]> By: Spotify reduces Aussie music piracy by 20 percent | Best VPN.com /spotify-music-piracy-down-australia-140910/#comment-1237076 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:20:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=93755#comment-1237076 […] to prove that Spotify is the cause of this decrease, the above graph (shared by Spotify with TorrentFreak) shows a marked decrease in piracy a number of months following when Spotify launched in Australia. […]

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