Comments on: Study finds file-sharers buy ten times more music

By: christy

christy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:20:40 +0000

whipping horse?

By: Drix

Drix — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:32:19 +0000

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.

By: Bas

Bas — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:00:15 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:24:31 +0000

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?”

By: Mário

Mário — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:11:07 +0000

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!

By: Justina

Justina — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:15:40 +0000

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…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:48:39 +0000

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.

By: Engago team

Engago team — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:25:55 +0000

Maybe the revenues of the music industry is declining as the content and quality is lower than ever before.
“Po-Po-Po-Poker face”