Piracy counts for 25% of the World's Internet Traffic

Imagine if 1/4 of all of the food sold in the grocery store were stolen.  Imagine 1/4 of all of the cars driven on the streets as having been stolen off of a dealership lot.  Impossible!  There is no way our society would allow such arrogant defiance of the law.  Well, a report issued yesterday by Envisional, a firm hired by NBC Universal found that nearly 1/4 of all internet traffic is "digital theft."  Of all of the illegal traffic, BitTorrent accounts for about 50%, Cyberlockers account for a scant 5.1 percent, illegal streaming video sites grab 1.4% and the rest from P2P.

So what does this mean for music?  According to Digital Music News, music accounts for just 3% of the media pirated on BitTorrent while hollywood grabs a solid 35%. Hopefully our friends out west will be able to make some noise to slow this trend better than the music industry has... Otherwise we might just all be doomed.

Pandora Music Office Picker=attn BMI, ASCAP and SESAC

Check this sweet piece of gadgetry out...  Obviously this is pretty fricken sweet!... but I'm not too sure that Pandora was created as a replacement for muzak.  In any regard...  hopefully the PRO's are listening up.  Perhaps they could attach a natural blanket license to this thing and make some real dough assuming any business using this is over the minimum square footage requirements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVrmRzIWM8&feature=player_embedded

Interesting way to allow everyone to weigh in on office background music though!