“According to The NPD Group, music downloading via peer-to-peer (P2P) services increased 14% from October through November of 2003.
That followedsix straight months of decline during the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) legal campaign against pirates, which has so far resulted in more than 300 lawsuits.
Russ Crupnick, vice president of the independent NPD Group, says there may be several reasons for the uptick in downloading.