Xeni Tech on NPR: Changing view of downloading music

For today's edition of the NPR program "Day to Day," I report on how the popularity of online file-sharing sevices has affected the way music fans find, distribute and listen to music. I speak with artists Michael Donaldson (aka Q-Burns Abstract Message) and David Byrne, and random folks buying tunes and movies at a record store in Hollywood. The short version? It seems that for many music-lovers, "consuming habits" involve some combination of purchased hard goods (CDs, DVDs, vinyl); paid downloads; and "illicit" P2P or other unpaid forms of tune-sharing. Those complex behaviors may explain in part why some studies show that music sales are up in spite of the fact that P2P use is still high, and growing.
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