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Digital Growth Won't Stop Overall Music Sales Shrinking: Forecast

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pUS digital music sales will grow by 17 percent per year on average over the next five years, to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013, Forrester's latest a href="http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/research:vision/105/id=100799/" title="Jupiterresearch forecast"Jupiterresearch forecast/a says. But that won't stop ioverall/i sales ishrinking/i by 0.8 percent per year on average from $10.2 billion to $9.8 billion. To blame - sticking points in the digital world and an acceleration in CDs' decline, their forecast revised from a 7.1 percent annual drop to 8.7 percent following poor 2007 CD sales. Other projections... /p p -- bPhones trump media players/b: The number of MP3-capable phones will grow from today's 53 million to 240 million, or 75 percent of the US, by 2013, significantly hitting demand for unconnected media devices, which will plateau at 41 percent of the population. br / -- bSubscriptions stutter/b: So much for the great white hope. While the number of digital music consumers is forecast to grow from this year's 58.7 million to 174.1 million or $3.5 billion by 2013 (55 percent of US online users), those taking music isubscriptions/i will creep from just 2.7 million to 4.8 million. br / -- bCasual spenders/b: Per-user music spend is expected to shrink as more consumers will be phone users, reckoned to be only casual spenders. br / -- bDRM-free, so what?/b: Only 24 percent of music buyers said DRM-free would entice them to buy more digital tracks (though it's possible some are merely unaware what DRM even is). /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-321-million-mp3-players-sold-in-the-uk-last-year-huh"32.1 Million MP3 Players Sold In The UK Last Year. Huh?/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-pay-for-content-set-to-grow-faster-than-free-driven-by-music-forecast"Pay-For Content Set To Grow Faster Than Free, Driven By Music: Forecast/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=bUOBWR"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=bUOBWR" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qhhiO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qhhiO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=p7h1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=p7h1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=V35uo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=V35uo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=dyZGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=dyZGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2hgKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2hgKO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472433097" height="1" width="1"/

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iPhone Beware, The Nokia N97 Is Coming

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- 51 minutes ago

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Hacker in final showdown to avoid extradition to US

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- 1 hours and 1 minutes ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/29042?ns=guardianpageName=Technology%3A+Hacker+in+final+showdown+to+avoid+extradition+to+USch=Technologyc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Technology%2CHacking+%28Technology%29%2CLaw+and+technology%2CComputer+security%2CUS+news%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CCorporate+IT%2CConsumer+Electronicsc6=Bobbie+Johnsonc7=2008_12_02c8=1127395c9=articlec10=GUc11=Technologyc12=Hackingc13=c14=h2=GU%2FTechnology%2FHacking" width="1" height="1" //divpThe British man accused of hacking into US military computers will have his final showdown in the UK courts next month./ppAfter almost four years of fighting extradition to the US as a result of what prosecutors have called "the biggest military computer hack of all time", Londoner Gary McKinnon will face a judicial review conducted by the high court on January 20./ppMcKinnon â€“ who used the online name Solo â€“ is accused of hacking into computers belonging to the Pentagon, Nasa and US armed forces in raids conducted between 2001 and 2002./ppProsecutors say he shut down thousands of machines and caused up to $700,000 worth of damage, while the 42-year-old claims he was searching for evidence of UFOs./ppOver the course of the case, defence lawyers argued that McKinnon will face unduly harsh punishment for his actions and should instead face trial in the UK, since the alleged hacking attacks were conducted from a house in north London./ppBy the time the decision is made, it will be almost seven years since McKinnon ended his activities. During that time a succession of arguments have been made against his removal â€“ including that he faces up to 60 years in prison or detention at Guantánamo Bay, and that he should receive leniency because he suffers from Aspberger's syndrome./ppSuch protestations have so far proved unsuccessful, however, with a string of decisions against him, including rulings by the law lords and the home secretary. McKinnon's last chance to avoid removal to the US will come in next month's judicial review./ppProsecutors acting for the government argued that McKinnon's review should take place today but his lawyers succeeded in pushing it back until the new year./ppThe news brought cheer to some campaigners who see the date as an auspicious sign. Coinciding with the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, supporters at the Free Gary website suggested the date could be the equivalent of "waving a couple of fingers" at the Bush administration./ppIn recent months campaigners â€“ including a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/nov/03/gary-kinnon-hacker-aspergers-extradition"former home secretary David Blunkett/a have argued that McKinnon should be tried in the UK because of his medical condition. /ppHis supporters are hopeful that they can sway the final judgment, particularly after Gordon Brown spoke about the case publicly for the first time last week and hinted that McKinnon may not end up in a US jail./ppDuring prime minister's questions last week, Brown was asked about McKinnon's situation and said that existing conventions would enable him to serve any prison sentence in Britain, rather than in the US./pp"The UK and the US are signatories to the Council of Europe convention on the transfer of sentenced persons, which enables a person found guilty in the United States of America to serve their sentence in the UK," he told MPs./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/hacking"Hacking/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/law"Law and technology/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/security"Computer security/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Hf_g_y-z4kF8AEzJrzRnlm7p92M/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Hf_g_y-z4kF8AEzJrzRnlm7p92M/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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