April 21, 2009
Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music
From the Guardian:
Everybody knows that music sales have continued to fall in recent years, and that filesharing is usually blamed. We are made to imagine legions of internet criminals, their fingers on track-pads, downloading songs via BitTorrent and never paying for anything. One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales. Millions of internet do-gooders, their fingers on track-pads, who pay for songs they like – purchasing them from Amazon or iTunes Music Store. And yet according to Professor Anne-Britt Gran’s new research, these two groups may be the same.
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Well, I’ll take music from any place legal or otherwise, but, if I like a tune I ALWAYS buy the cd – not out of any sense of guilt for having the ripped tune, I just want to own that which I like, so I always get the CD.
A few years ago I went entirely digital with music, so I can’t use the rationale anymore. I do, however, know what it is like to go hungry (and know my fair share of starving artists), so, when I can swing buying albums that I have heard and like, I do.
Wait. I thought that home taping killed the music industry, just like video killed the radio star.
Arr, we do love our sea shanties on limited release vinyls, to be sure.