Illicit file-sharers each spend £77 on music annually, £33 more than legitimate consumers
In what will surely encourage the self-validating conscience of illicit file-sharers, a new study has concluded that people who pirate digital content end up spending more on it than those who don’t.
A survey commissioned by the think-tank group Demos showed that broadband users who never pirate material each spend an average of £44 per year on music. Those who pirate music, by comparison, spend an average of £77.
The study implies that those who illicitly download digital content have a greater thirst for it, and thus, are more inclined to pay out for it.
There's lots more info on this story over on PCR.
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No "steaming lump of poo" Sherlock!
This is a view I've always held.
Back in the day when Napster first appeared I used to download all sorts of stuff. You would be able to search for songs and then look at what other songs thos people have and find all sorts of stuff. This would mean you listen to more artists and end up liking more. I used to sped a fortune on CDs after getting them and listening to them for a few weeks.
Nowadays you can't really download songs as easily and therefore I end up not listening to so much new stuff and tend to stick with the bands I know. It just costs too much to buy something you may not like. I know many people of the same opinion. Whereas we all used to buy 2 or 3 CDs a month on average in the high of napster, I'll probably only buy 1 every 2 or 3 months now.
As much as record lables and artists may say they hate the file sharing community I reckon their drops in sales is actually due to the crackdown on sharers and not because of the sharers not buying music!!!
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