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Research: File Traders And Music Purchasing

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-it-has-to-do-with-wallet-size dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Like a TV preacher taking excerpts from the Bible to support a contrary thought, the results of research can be similarly interpreted in opposite ways. Edison Research just released a pro-record industry report stating '10.1% of 12-17s are actively downloading/not purchasing music.' Richard Menta over at MP3 Newswire noted that this also means 90% of file traders are buying music, a positive result that supports the virtues of trading. Menta then goes through the study's findings one-by-one, questioning Edison Research's conclusions. This includes their recommendation to the industry to fight the 'downloading problem.'"

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  1. My honest No B$ answer by t0qer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't fill my hard drive up with that frivolous crap. I consider data like any other peice of data, just another bit to babysit. My hard drive is filled up with some games, tons of applications that I use, and tons of stuff that I work on for other people, backups of their postnuke sites, graphics, renderings from truespace, ect.

    I do have cat5 strung up throughout the block(and my house of course). Click on my user, look back a a few of my posts, sorry i'm a little lazy to do that right now.

    Back to my point, there's a few house frau's that i've taught how to turn their CD collection into mp3's. Over the 4th we pirated the FUCK outta their collection by piping the MP3's through a D/A convertor, then through an amplified coil attatched to some paperish material inside of this big wooden box.

    OkOK I lied, I do have a huge collection of stuff I grabbed when napster was still around. I don't swap songs with people though. My upstream is capped at 128.

    OKOK I lied again, everytime I have a lan party, I add new songs, but they're not on MY hard drive they're on my other FILESERVERS hard drive. I don't wanna put that kind of junk on my 10kRPM Ultra 160 drive! Yeah I'll just shove it on that crap 80 dollar IDE on the fileserver.

    Fuck it, it's too hot and i'm too cranky to write anything usefull. Go ahead and use those mod points to mod me down.

    --toq