from CNET News.com

Study: iTunes more popular than many P2P sites

The survey by market research firm NPD Group found that approximately 1.7 million U.S. households downloaded a song from iTunes in March. That was good enough to earn the store a second-place ranking with peer-to-peer downloading service LimeWire.

The most popular digital music service during the month, however, was P2P site WinMX, which was used by 2.1 million households to download music during the month.

“One of the music industry’s questions has been, when will paid download stores compete head-to-head with free P2P download services?” Russ Crupnick, president of the NPD Group’s music and movies division, said in a statement. “That question has now been answered. iTunes is more popular than nearly any P2P service.”