Despite the fact that independent musicians and small labels are largely thriving, the major label music industry sales has been deteriorating for a while. Instead of looking for the real cause behind their sales slump, major labels preferred to blame it all on piracy.
A new study indicates that those pirates might be the biggest legitimate music buyers.
The study, conducted by researchers Demos, polled 1008 people in the UK. Almost 10% of the respondents admitted to downloading music illegally through peer to peer networks. File sharers estimated their average spending on music, vinyl and MP3s to be around 77 GBP while none file sharers had an average of 44 GBP only.
The aforementioned numbers mean that file sharers are responsible for 16% of the music industry's total revenue.
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Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
see piracy isnt to blame as most of us buy a legit copy after trying it out and liking it. the music industry is just trying to find a scape goat for there low sales thats actually caused by them making crap music
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
i pirate music as a way to 'test-drive' bands/albums. if i didn't do that then i wouldn't risk a blind-buy.
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
I don't believe that for a second. I download, and would never pay for music again.I'd rather go to my favorit bands concerts and pay for an over priced ticket/t-shirt.Those people were lying in those polls!
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
I guess is mostly a 50/50 or less that those who buy music and download it, still good music is hard to buy it or in the reach.
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
anon 22:41 I dl music because I don't afford to have as much as I do otherwise. however I do by cds when I get the chance, since I know which ones are good AND then I also have good quality copies of the songs.. that arn't 50mb a peice... for some reason almost everything you download is either medium to low quality, or high high quality but outrageously high file size
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
Most of us download games/music/programs and don't even buy it after trying it, i have never bought a game or song that i've downloaded, it just wouldn't make sense to spend money on buying it if you already have it i mean why spend money on it if you can get it for free.
Study: File Sharers Are The Biggest Music Spenders
I download cd's to test drive them before buying. Also, when you download them, the best you can hope for from limewire is 320kbps, which is pretty terrible quality on a decent pair of headphones or a nice sound system. CD is the way to go.
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