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Ipsos-Reid: More Americans Downloading Music
An anonymous reader writes "Ipsos-Reids ongoing research on file trading called Tempo again confirms a continuing rise in the number of Americans downloading music from the Net. Furthermore, almost a third (31%) of those who do download claim they have paid for at least some of the music they got online. Of course, having paid once from services like Rhapsody and PressPlay doesn't mean you were satisfied with the value. It does mean though that a sizeable audience are willing to give these record industry endorsed services a shot even though they can get it all free on KaZaa. You can see the the report graphs here."
This is yet another case of /. taking one study and then claiming that it must be statistically significant when it is probably not representative at all of most people. The TEMPO study is obviously geared towards somehow making it socially acceptable to steal music. I doubt whether it is as widespread as it reports, as most people think twice before destroying artist's livelihood.
After all it take takes real scum to steal music and then to brag about it. And the imbeciles who post here will probably egg them on all the while as they do it.
Well you know why popular music scene is full of "artists" like Britney Spears? It's because of people like them stealing music and destroying the chances of decent musicians.