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Apple Draws Visitors with iTunes

Neilson/NetRatings released statistics on Monday about a surge in traffic at Apple.com in the week ending on October 19th.



This increase in traffic of 112% to more than one million unique visitors reflects interest and downloads of Apple's iTunes for Windows application.



Indeed, iTunes use appears to be on the rise, as both students at Stanford University and Columbia University seem to be taking advantage of Apple's jukebox offering. However, some behavior may be difficult to change.



Some Stanford students are primarily taking advantage of iTunes' ability to share music on local networks. One student admits:


    "Once you get the program, you can access the MP3 music library of anyone on the local network (so its almost as good as downloading, but you dont fill up your hard drive) and, oh yeah, its not illegal. Woohoo."

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108 months ago
It's great that people are downloading iTunes and - more importantly - liking it.

As for the semi-legal sharing, I don't care if they do it, but I wish they'd just shut the hell up about it. The last thing we need is an iTunes 4.1.2 with no network sharing whatsoever.
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108 months ago
I wonder whether this is just Mac users or actually curious PC people. Why doesn't Apple release figures showing what platform these visitors are on?
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108 months ago
well, you can only access the library of users who share their libraries. it's not really much different from internet streaming radio--you can't download them, you can't access them when the other guy's server is down, and you can't put them on your iPod.
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108 months ago

Originally posted by loneAzdgari
I wonder whether this is just Mac users or actually curious PC people.

It's PC people downloading iTunes. Apple's already reported over a million downloads of iTunes for Windows.
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108 months ago
The sharing feature is definitely utilized by college students. On average, there are 100 shared libraries available at any given time on our network. (This number increased drastically after the Windows version was released).
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108 months ago
eh...again...it's the "Cat & Mouse" game...

there's always going to be a loophole someone will find...
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108 months ago

Originally posted by shadowfax
well, you can only access the library of users who share their libraries. it's not really much different from internet streaming radio--you can't download them, you can't access them when the other guy's server is down, and you can't put them on your iPod.

True, but you can always use a little app like WireTap to record the song.
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108 months ago
very incouarging information, especially in light of the new competition apple is facing in this field
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108 months ago
Bring it!
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108 months ago
so this probably means these campuses will not be purchasing much music?
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