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Challenging Music Downloading Myths

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

The BBC is reporting on a study by digital music research firm The Leading Question, which found that people who download music from peer to peer networks paid for four and a half times more music than regular music fans. Also that most of these people "are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling." What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.

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  1. I have a quest by SamSim · · Score: 3, Funny

    One day I am going to find and buy - or else delete from my hard drive - all the music I have illegally downloaded.

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  2. Re:Downloading isn't evil at all. by zr-rifle · · Score: 3, Funny

    You spent $200 in Buble' merchandise???
     
    If this isn't an epitome of evilness, I don't know what else could be...

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    Hack your mind out of its sandbox.
  3. Nahh i'm evil by darkmayo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I download music with no intent of paying for it, I go to live shows make bootlegs and sell them.. after stealing the bands equipment from the back of the van of course... I kick kittens and puppies and beat up old people while selling smack to their grand kids. Britney Spears and all those wonderfully manufactured musicians are going hungry because of me.

    I am evil hear me roar.

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    "I am a kernel in the linux army"