Pirates not so hot for Hope For Haiti Now charity album
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Earlier this week, the RIAA published a blog post slamming the news that the Hope For Haiti Now charity album was freely available on BitTorrent sites.
“The posting highlights a truly ugly side of P2P piracy – the undermining of humanitarian fundraising efforts via online theft of the “Hope for Haiti Now” compilation. So much for the notion that illegal downloading (“sharing”) is an effort to help advance the plight of artists.”
But reading that, I wondered just how popular the album is on file-sharing networks. It might be available, but how many people are downloading it? So I asked someone best placed to answer that question – Eric Garland of BigChampagne, which tracks activity on these networks.
“Yes, the charity record is available online, on torrent sites and one-click hosting etc, but the interest/volume is relatively low – nothing like a big pop record,” he says. And he pulled out some stats to show the comparative downloads of Hope For Haiti Now and Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster to show it. Click on the image above to make it bigger and see the graph.
At its peak on 24th January, Hope For Haiti Now was being downloaded 2,680 times a day according to BigChampagne – compare that to The Fame Monster’s 63,845 downloads the same day. Meanwhile, by 23rd February, Hope For Haiti Now’s daily downloads had dwindled to 820, compared to 47,971 for the Gaga album.
It seems pirates may have a conscience after all…
Tags: bigchampagne, Hope For Haiti Now, lady gaga
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March 6th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Maybe it’s because it sucks
March 6th, 2010 at 5:12 am
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March 6th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
It’s funny how that idiot at BigChapagne is just using the number of people in the swarm as a measure of how much it is being downloaded, I can’t believe anyone would take him seriously when 5 minutes of googling will prove his figures completely wrong LOL
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