Study Says P2P Downloaders Buy More Music

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 2, 2007 @04:17PM from the not-all-that-kooky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist posts to his site about a study commissioned by the Canadian government intended to look into the buying habits of music fans. What the study found is that 'there is a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing.' The report is entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study For Industry Canada, and it was 'conducted collaboratively by two professors from the University of London, Industry Canada, and Decima Research, who surveyed over 2,000 Canadians on their music downloading and purchasing habits. The authors believe this is the first ever empirical study to employ representative microeconomic data.'"

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Wishful thinking. by cdrguru · 2007-11-03 08:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If I have "the music", why would I go to a store and buy "the music" again? Altruism? Guilt?

Maybe there are a few Catholic downloaders that feel the need to aswage their sins by buying CDs, but I doubt it is a significant blip. Nobody I know that has high speed Internet does anything but download. No iTunes. No CDs. No subscriptions, no CD clubs. Just free downloading.