DISQUS

VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/21/study-finds-file-sharers-buy-ten-times-more-music/

  • Engago team · 8 months ago
    Maybe the revenues of the music industry is declining as the content and quality is lower than ever before.
    "Po-Po-Po-Poker face"
  • Brian · 8 months ago
    This isn't that unbelievable. It's a selection bias in the sample. People who seek out music illegally are expoesd to a ton of music. They are also pretty obviously into music. They have enough passion for it that they go out and spend time seeking out new music. It's not like MTV is a tastemaker anymore.

    Personally, I go in waves of music purchases. But, the amount of time I spend on free music streaming sites has an enormous correlation to my music purchases. Not exactly P2P, but similar.
  • Justina · 8 months ago
    Sounds like an example straight from the book Wikinomics. If you haven't read it, you should. Of course, I bought the podibook for my ipod via iTunes...
  • Mário · 8 months ago
    Great research and definitely something to think about. Music addicts download more and also buy more, that's now news. But I didn't know they were buying so much more!
  • Steve · 8 months ago
    The thing is, what the study says is "if you are into music enough to p2p, then you are also a buyer of music." It's no surprise that my wife, for example, who is a web user that is only a casual music listener, doesn't buy much music.

    The question that is relevant is "if you take away p2p from people who also have been proven to buy music (while still using p2p services), does their buying trend go up or down?"
  • Bas · 8 months ago
    A mistake in here. BitTorrent is not a file-sharing site, just like Firefox.com is not a site about surfing the web. BitTorrent is an application.

    Thanks for sharing. There are some similar researches that show the same; one commissioned by the Canadian government even. Although reports of IFPI/RIAA quote research reports that show negative correlations of course.
  • Drix · 8 months ago
    Actually.. bittorrent isn't even av application, it's a technology, used by the applications you use to download content from the users of torrent-hosting sites.
  • christy · 8 months ago
    whipping horse?