Shiver me timbers

Pirates, Or Merely Devoted Fans?
A study conducted on 2000 Canadians has shown that most people download songs off the Internet simply because they want to try-before-buy or because they were unable to find this music in their local stores.

Yet, the recording industry is playing deaf, dumb and blind, endlessly trying to prove that sharing, by its very nature, is bad.

The two researchers at the University of London that conducted the study for the Canadian Government estimated that the effect of one additional P2P download per month is actually an increase in music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.

In other words, P2P sharing (or pirating, however you want to put it) increases music sales.

This is in stark contrast with the usual drabble from the record industry which often has insane models of calculating P2P’s “damages”, counting every downloaded song as a direct loss in sales.

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