Free music? Anyway steal

Radiohead on Thursday released their new album for free. In the commercial section of the site, he appeared at a price of $ 0, 0 cents, although the buyer could pay any price in his own way and the total amount of payments was already close to $ 10 million .

Interestingly, the price of 0 cents did not stop hundreds of thousands of users from illegally copying files through peer-to-peer networks, reports Forbes . Already on the first day, when the album appeared online, it was downloaded 240,000 times through pirated networks. In the following days, the number of races was approximately 100,000 per day, so the total number has now exceeded half a million. For comparison, the number of legal downloads was less than 1.2 million, and a substantial part of them were provided by preliminary applications, which were accepted 10 days before the start of official “sales”.

This fact suggests that P2P is a familiar and comfortable way to download music and movies for many users. As you can see, the reason is not only free P2P content, but also the convenience of torrent clients. It is known that they provide much faster download speeds than official sites and online stores. In addition, the torrent trackers range of movies, computer games and music is wider than in any store.