A British organization has discovered that illegal music downloaders spend much more on paid music downloads than strictly legal file-sharers do.
The Leading Question, a digital music consumer research firm, says music pirates spent four-and-a-half times more for legal music downloads than average fans.
"Music fans who break piracy laws are highly valuable customers," said Paul Brindley, head of the Leading Question, which conducted a survey of 600 music fans who also own computers and mobile phones.
Brindley's research discovered those who downloaded illegally spent an average of 5.52 pounds a month doing the same thing legally compared to legal file sharers, who spent just 1.27 pounds a month on digital tracks.
Brindley says hardcore music fans are "extremely enthusiastic" about paying for services that they find "compelling."
Recent data from the International Federation of Phonographic Industries showed that the number of legal tracks downloaded worldwide tripled in the first half of 2005 compared to the same period last year.
The federation, which represents record companies and has members in 75 countries, credits the rise in legal downloads to three things:
There are now more than 300 sites available for legal downloads, three times as many as a year ago.
There's been a 13-per-cent increase in the number of broadband lines installed globally.
The industry has aggressively campaigned to prosecute illegal downloaders.
The IFPI has filed more than 14,000 lawsuits against file-sharers in 12 countries since September 2003.
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Ha take that bitch your sueing your most loyal costomers. What a bunch of nut fucks eh
Exactly what I tryed to tell the industry trolls that were showing up here. But would they listen? Nooooo, im stupid.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
hmm I must not be one of them. I don't download much filth anyway. So naturally I won't be one of those buying much of it.
well im not one of those people either. I paid for about 20% of my music i have.
its funny you need a research to tell you this, coulda just asked me would have avoided extra costs ;)
l8
like honestly, who does that?!?!
I dont believe this. Illegal downloaders arent the biggest spenders, how do they get this info
I know I'm a big spender............On blank media!
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Originally Posted by mfgbypooter
i was thinking about that. what are the required necessities of a pirate? one is internet service, and the other is blank media. if the industries want to reclaim lost profits, they should host affordable and fast internet service. they also should manufacture CD/DVD-Rs so that the pirates will back their stuff up on. i think they may have burned their bridges by suing people, but that would have had a good chance of adapting to the changing consumer environment.
as for the research. i totoally agree with the results. i have about 10 or more games sitting unopened in my closet. why? becuase i beat them already, and i feel for the sake of the devolopers, that i should own their wonderful games if i like them enough. the same would be true with CDs if people had never been sued. i belive fully in giving credit to where ever it is due, and though there may be some groups out there that deserve my life's savings, i can never buy another CD untill something changes... like hell freezing over.
If only the industry would have taken Napster's idea, and instead just charged a monthly fee for access to the central server (much the way premium news servers for newsgroups work), then the industry wouldn't be in the position they are now. Had they done this, I'm sure they'd have far more earnings now with a lot less expense than they do from suing their customers and further alienating them from future sales.
But what do I know, I'm only an illegal (in their eyes) downloader.
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What's wrong with this article?
..."Music fans who break piracy laws are highly valuable customers,"
..."The federation, which represents record companies and has members in 75 countries, credits the rise in legal downloads to three things:
The industry has aggressively campaigned to prosecute illegal downloaders."
So, despite being more likely to spend money on their pap, they are still convinced that the reason they are buying their pap in the first place is because they are threatening to sue? Um! What? Just how many jobs are in the litigation department that keep the FUD going?
Just for the record, I and virtually none of my peers have bought online or offline that would provide any money to any of the big five ever since they began their questionable lawsuits. That's set to continue until they cease their war on their customers.
I wish, just once they would try and sue some rich bastard with time to kill and a grudge against bullies. That would make my year.
I don't buy low quality music files,period.I also won't buy a cd until they put some quality music out there,not like these lip-syncing losers they're trying to push as real artists.
I don't see things changing for a long time,but hopefully I'm wrong.
I would buy my music, but it seems the North american industry still has no interest in finding a customer who likes Scandinavian death metal and Trancecore.
Guess ill have to keep getting it for free. Stupid fucks.
i dont really believe this either. I have bought 1 music in the last 7 years, and that was for a birthday present. I was on Napster when there were 50 ppl.
This does not make any scence. Illegal downloaders does not spend more on music. The money is spent elsewhere. Occassionally a person who likes a band or heard an album on the p2p may prompt to buy it or get it later.. But in no way are they spending more money downloading tracks legally. They spend more money on hardware, broadband, cd-r,dvd-r, and everything between.
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