Moneysupermarket: Britons losing over £7 billion in digital music

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Moneysupermarket: Britons losing over £7 billion in digital music

Fri 10th Oct 2008

Britons are losing more than £7 billion in downloaded music from not backing up their data, research has found.
While nearly two-thirds of people download music, 29 per cent have lost their entire collection of downloaded tunes.
All in all, over 9 billion tracks have been lost, amounting to £7.6 billion, according to Moneysupermarket.com's research and calculations.
The most unfortunate groups are younger people and hip hop lovers.
A fifth (21 per cent) of people in their 20s have lost an average of 1,165 songs each while 26 per cent of hip hop fans have lost their collections permanently.
Last month, Moneysupermarket.com reported that O2's 8 Mbps package had come top in its second quarterly speed test of nearly 60,000 internet connections.
It had an average speed of up to 4.95 Mbps.
Orange also found its way into the top three with its 8 Mbps product having an average speed of 3 Mbps.

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