Is The Longtail Real? Study On File-sharing Networks Raises Questions

“Indeed, anyone who uses P2P realizes that long tail content is harder to find there, and when you do find it, it takes longer to download. Hit songs near the top of the charts, however, often download in mere seconds, which could go a long way towards explaining why the Long Tail theory doesn’t apply to P2P the way it does to services where each song is as easy to download as the next.”