REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU FILE SHARING WAS GOOD FOR THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!
by Hazed
Music industry spokespeople have always claimed that piracy is killing the music biz, and file-sharing is bleeding dry the poor suffering artists. But if you’ve always suspected this was rubbish, it turns out you are right.
New research carried out by a body attached to Columbia University has found that file-sharers pay for more tunes that those that don’t share their music.
The research covered consumers in the US and Germany, and it concluded that “The biggest music pirates are also the biggest spenders on recorded music” and also suggests that “If absolute spending is the metric, then P2P users value music more highly than their non-P2P using, digital-collecting peers, not less.” Analysis of the data leads to the authors stating that file sharers also make “significantly higher legal purchases of digital music than their non-P2P using peers - around 30% higher among US P2P users.”
So there!
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/16/file_sharers_buy_more_music/
