“Traditional music pirates, who burned and sold bootlegs long before the days of Napster, continue to cost the music industry billions of dollars every year. But the same technologies that pirates use to steal — file sharing, CD-burning and computers — are driving legitimate sales by consumers, according to research from market research company Ipsos-Reid … The Ipsos-Reid study found that 81 percent of music downloaders reported that their CD purchasing either remained the same or increased. That backs up research from Jupiter Media Metrix that concluded that people using file-sharing networks were more likely to spend money on music…”
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