Daily Archives: 4 November 2012

Filesharers buy more music than others

open quoteThe American Assembly report suggests that peer-to-peer (P2P) users buy 30% more music than people who aren’t involved in online sharing.

And the non-partisan public policy forum adds that filesharing is a drop in the ocean compared to more traditional offline copying such as burning CDs.

Researchers carried out thousands of telephone interviews with people all over the USA and Germany.

Joe Karaganis of the American Assembly says: “P2P users have larger music collection than non-P2P users – roughly 37% more. Most of the difference comes from higher levels of downloading for free and copying from friends.close quote (Read more)

Poland found explosives on wreckage of president’s plane-report

open quotePolish investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russia two years ago, killing Poland’s president and 95 others, daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday.

Without citing sources, the newspaper said prosecutors and explosive experts who examined the remains of the plane in Russia found signs of TNT and nitroglycerin on the wings and in the cabin, including on 30 seats.

Traces of explosives were also found in the area where the Tu-154 crashed during its approach to a small airport near the Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, 2010, the daily reported.

Poland’s military prosecutor’s office plans to respond to the report later on Tuesday, its spokesman said.

Russian investigators had blamed the Polish crew for trying to land in heavy fog, while their Polish counterparts also said the airport controllers should not have allowed the plane to attempt an approach.

Some rightist groups in Poland, including main opposition party Law and Justice, had rejected the findings and suggested the crash could have been an assassination of President Lech Kaczynski and political and military leaders who flew with him.close quote (Read more)