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Techradar - All the latest technology news: Illegal downloads drive online music sales
Boing Boing: Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
Gizmodo: It's Still True: Music Pirates Buy More Music [Piracy]
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Illegal downloaders spend most http://bit.ly/1I2CNu 5 days ago |
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Ah, found the link I was talking about http://tinyurl.com/yzh3yza 7 days ago |
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RT @maja_a: "Illegal" downloaders spend most on music, use file-sharing as a discovery mechanism: UK Study http://is.gd/4QeKr 11 days ago |
Illegal downloads drive online music sales
Techradar - All the latest technology news —
... The Demos poll of 1,000 people between 16 and 50 found that illegal downloaders on average spend £77 a year on music, whereas the rest fork out just £44. ...
Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music
Boing Boing —
... surveyed admitting they would be put off downloading music illegally by the threat of having their internet service cut off for a month.
"The people who file-share are the ones who are interested in music," said Mark Mulligan of Forrester Research. "They use file-sharing as a discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don't have any concept of music as a paid-for commodity," he continued. "You need to have it at a price point you won't notice."
Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll
(Thanks, Libbi!) ...
It's Still True: Music Pirates Buy More Music [Piracy]
Gizmodo —
We've been here before, so no long post necessary, but it's worth mentioning, again, that illegal downloaders, the alleged scourge of the music industry, are really the ones who buy the most music. So says a new survey out of the U.K., anyway. [The Independent via Boing Boing]
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POLL: Illegal Downloaders Buy the Most Music
Mashable! —
The UK’s Independent newspaper picks up on a curious study today: people who download music illegally also buy more music legally, according to a poll’s results. The study comes as the UK plans a controversial “three strikes and you’re out” rule that would disconnect copyright infringers from the Internet – it’s set to become law in April 2010.
The Independent writes:
The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of £77 ...
Illegal Music Downloader's Spend "The Most on Music"
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
... Measuring the impact of illegal downloading on the music industry is a nearly impossible task that only seems to make the lawyers rich, but a new UK based study has concluded that illegal downloader's not only don't hurt music sales, they help. According to the survey which looked at the buying habits of about 1,000 16 to 50 year-old computer users, those that regularly downloaded music illegally also spent nearly 43% more per year through official channels than their legitimate counterparts. According to the UK Secretary of State for Business Peter Mandelson, this proves the ...
Linkpost | 11.2.2009
TechBlog —
... - If the client senses network congestion, it will throttle the traffic itself. • Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll - There's an increasing amount of evidence that suggests this. • ...
UK Study: File Sharers Spend More on Music
AppScout —
... Naturally, response to the study has been a bit polarizing, especially in light of the British Phonographic Industry's attempts to throttle the connections of illegal downloaders. The new Digital Economy Bill is set to go into effect in that country next April. ...
Music pirates spend more on music than their legal, law-abiding brethren
Download Squad —
... The results of a survey, announced yesterday, show that the biggest buyers of music are in fact those that pirate the most. The conclusions come from a poll of 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 50, with 10% of those admitting they download music illegally -- so it's not a huge slice of the population, and it's by no means conclusive, but I think it just confirms what we already know: it's the music fans that download all the music. ...
New Study: Pirates Buy The Most Music
I4U News —
... Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:20:51 CST | by Robert Evans A new study from the UK (via The Independent) has shown what many piracy-advocates have been saying for years. While the average person spends around £34 a year on music, people who self-identify as pirates spend an average of £77. The pirates are also the ones buying music in greater quantities. For years, piracy advocates have claimed that most users only pirate as a way to 'test' new bands and seek out more music to buy. While no study can prove that fact 100%, this is certainly more evidence in favor of it. More ...
Did Sinking Pirate Bay Cause More Piracy? And Does It Matter Anyway?
Fast Company - Technology —
... their downloading habits. In fact it's increased the risk to all Internet users malware. And actually it's made piracy more of a public issue and multiplied the number of piracy Web sites that exist. Which could result in greater piracy. In other words, authoritarian stances on piracy actually achieve the opposite, and punish the very people who spend the most to keep the music biz in, as you might say, biz.
Oh what a tangled Web we weave...
[Via VentureBeat, The Independent]
P2P users may be music industry's best friend after all
Ars Technica —
... (PowerPoint) from Ipsos MediaCT, and Ipsos went out and surveyed 1,008 Internet-using UK adults aged 16 to 50. A third of them admitted to using "unofficial" sources to find music, though only 10 percent said that they actually downloaded copyrighted content without permission . (This may be one of those results that comes from a response bias against admitting to perceived negative acts.) Ipsos then narrowed in on those who admitted to scouring the unofficial channels of music and asked them about their music buying. The results were split, but most people said that the ...
Illegal Downloaders Spend More on Music [File Sharing]
Lifehacker —
According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don't. None of this changes the legality of downloading copyrighted content, of course, but if the same is true for most file sharers across the globe, it seems like something the music industry and the RIAA might want to consider in their crusades against file sharing. [ The Independent ] Send an email to Adam Pash, the author of this post, at ...
Yet Another (Yes, Another) Study Shows File Sharers Buy More
Techdirt —
Pretty much every single non-industry-backed study has shown this same thing, but just for the record, here's yet another study showing that those who engage in unauthorized file sharing end up buying more media. The study, looking at the UK (home of the new proposal to kick people off the internet), wasn't even close. Those who engaged in unauthorized file sharing tended to spend £77 on media per year, while those who did not spent about £44. And yet file sharers are the enemy? And the industry wants to kick them offline so they discover less new ...
UK study finds that people who illegally download music are biggest paying music consumers
CrunchGear —
... Well, well, well, look what we have here. A new study shows that people who download music illegally are more likely to buy music than their non-pirating counterparts. Why’s that? It turns out that people who are into downloading music are actually into music, whereas people who don’t download music aren’t necessarily fans of music in general. ...
Breakfast briefing: File sharing booms, Conficker worm continues to grow
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... • Hot on the heels of the controversial Demos survey that suggested filesharers spend more on music than average consumers, McAfee has found rather than squash the rate of p2p activity online, the temporary closure of the Pirate Bay ...
Music Pirates Spend More on Tunes Than Non-Pirates, Finds Poll
Switched —
... According to the Independent, a new poll commissioned by Demos, a U.K. think tank, found that people who admit to illegally downloading music on the ...
