Sharing Increases Music Purchases?

darnellmc writes "See this News.com article which cites a study that shows file swapping increases music purchases. I guess it all depends on who is paid to do the study and how they carry it out, but this report would counter the study performed by an RIAA backed group, which noted that file swapping lowered music purchases. You would have to be one cheap individual to want to download all the music in your life for free and this study proves that. Because most people are obviously using file sharing to find new music to purchase. A concept the RIAA can not comprehend. If future major music releases are copy protected, it will be interesting how the RIAA will respond if they sell less." Well, if they sell less, it will be due to pirates, of course. A few weeks ago we mentioned Wilco, who released their album on their website for free. The strategy appears to have paid off.

Comments

Of course..

[Pave Low]

if you found an article that showed "sharing" hurt purchases, you guys would never post it, or at least accuese them of being RIAA lackeys.

Re:hmm...

[Jeff Probst]

do they also teach you how to steal and make excuses for it?

moderation [OT]

[molo]

This is nuts. I get moderated as a troll, but the parent says:

"I went off to Best Buy the next week and put the CD in my pocket while no one was looking"

and

"I think it's about time someone ran an honest, non-biased study about this"

If thats not a troll, I don't know what is.