A UK survey reported in this article from Ars Technica shows that real music lovers still purchase CDs. The behaviour seems to indicate that purchasing downloads is used to discover new music and decide which new CDs to buy. P2P music downloading has dropped, probably because of the dubious quality of anything obtained through those channels. The study also confirms that people who purchase music online also buy more CDs. Although the article doesn´t mention this, to me this is also an indication that the lost sales figures that the RIAA claim due to illegal downloads is not accurate, since a proportion of people may just as easily download music illegally as a way to discover new music before buying it.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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