200M Kazaa downloads vs (maybe) 0.5M legit online music subscribers
Due to various misteps on the part of the music industry and ignorance of what consumers are willing to pay for has lead to music piracy continuing unabated in the absence of comprehensive legit alternatives according to this MIT Technology Review story reprinted in the Wall Street Journal (subscrption required):
The humble jukebox has been a mainstay of soda shops, pizza parlors, and pubs since the 1950s. Yet creation of an online equivalent of the jukebox -- one that elicits the same sentimental and lucrative appreciation as its coin-operated predecessor -- has thus far proven a nearly impossible endeavor.
...Various analyses of the half-dozen or so services put the total of their combined subscribers at between 300,000 and 500,000. Emusic, the one legitimate music service that discloses its subscriber numbers, claimed 70,000 subscribers as of year-end 2002. Meanwhile, Kazaa, the leader of the file-trading services not sanctioned by the music industry, has been downloaded more than 200 million times.