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Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music

Posted by samzenpus on from the those-who-listen-also-buy dept.

elashish14 writes "A new survey commissioned by Google suggests that music listeners who utilize P2P filesharing services buy 30% more music than non-sharers. The survey also probed users' opinions on enforcement practices. Users were strongly against either throttling or disconnecting users' internet services, but the majority suggested also that search engines should block access. 52% of Americans also said that downloading infringing content should be a punishable offense."

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  1. e.g. 52% of Americans believe in thought crime. by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This goes to show that more than half of the USian population believes in the tyranny produced by the power elite and believe in punishing people for non-crimes. That the population of the US is so badly educated and brainwashed that they believe these things. It goes to show that the US is not a civilized nation with rational, reasonable laws that make sense in any sense of the word.

  2. 52% of Americans by Swampash · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hard to believe I know, but then again a 2012 Gallup poll found that 46% of American respondents believe that an invisible superhero who lives in the sky created humans in their current form.

    Conclusion: half of Americans are fucking retarded.