According to a new research report published by Tulane University Law Professor Glynn Lunney, illegal file sharing has helped lead to more hit music for record labels and artists.
This is a sharp contrast to what the RIAA and other trade groups believe, with their claims that piracy leads to billions of dollars in losses every year.
Lunney says file-sharing actually encourages the ... [ read the full article ]
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There have been several studies showing that content "pirates" actually pay for significantly more content than average. This research simply adds more ammunition to that claim.
Almost without exception, everyone I know who downloads also buys far more music & film than those who do not.
I often use a download to sample music & film & if I like them I then buy, in the best quality available.
I have literally hundreds of CDs (& quite a few SACDs & DVD-Audio), HD DVDs & Blu-rays.
Most people who don't download also buy very little, if at all.
The MPAA & RIAA (and their clones elsewhere) just salivate at the ludicrous idea that every download could be a sale.
I'd not bother so much if their dream came true.
Talk about counter-productive.
Lots of us contribute enormously to the music & movie business as it is.
It's only the 2nd biggest & most profitable enterprise on the planet (after conventional energy), so much for all their bleating about impending doom (and as decades of court cases prove it is the industry that is often the worst rip-off any artist can have the misfortune to tangle with)
Often we have satellite or cable TV deals too - usually with a hard drive recording facility, so we are not in fact getting anything we would not otherwise get.
How can this be classified as a 'theft' by any sane judgement?
All downloading does for the vast majority of us is allow us convenience (and higher quality than broadcast quality).
The standard persecution idea driven by the likes of the MPAA, RIAA etc is simply insane.
