Comments on: STUDY: Pirates Buy 10 Times More Music Than They Steal

By: How to Create a Digital Distirbution System for Video and Music

How to Create a Digital Distirbution System for Video and Music — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:17:41 +0000

[...] fairness and allow him to feel smug about buying your product, instead of pirating it. According to a study in 2009 (and many others since then), music pirates actually buy ten times as much as they [...]

By: UK ISP “Levy” Paper Co-Author Clarifies His Position

UK ISP “Levy” Paper Co-Author Clarifies His Position — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:25:02 +0000

[...] largest business school in Norway and the second largest in all of Europe, concluded last year that file-sharers actually buy 10 times as much music as they download for free, and a Canadian federal government-funded study from a few years ago found that “P2P [...]

By: Øystein Jakobsen

Øystein Jakobsen — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:16:57 +0000

Drew is reading the report wrong.

It’s not that pirates are buying more music than they download, the study found that pirates are buying more music than non-pirates. The study found that pirates bought 2x as much stuff as non-pirates, I don’t think it was 10x

BI is not known for being the best researchers in Copyright stuff, now there are many other reports saying the same – piracy is good, monopoly is bad. Reform is needed

By: Rupert Murdoch’s Son: Online Piracy Like “Stealing Pringles or a Handbag”

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:25:37 +0000

[...] as they wish or can. In fact, numerous well-respected studies have found that illegal file-sharing actually increases their ability to do [...]

By: BPI Rebuts ISP Anti-Piracy Estimates

BPI Rebuts ISP Anti-Piracy Estimates — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:47:09 +0000

[...] are countless studies that conclude the opposite, that P2P actually increases music consumption, and they come from sources much more reputable than the [...]

By: RIAA to FCC: ISPs Need to Filter Content

RIAA to FCC: ISPs Need to Filter Content — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:44:39 +0000

[...] Their figure always take a 1:1, one illegal download equals a lost sale, approach to their figures, contradicting repeated evidence that for creative industries like music P2P actually increases consumption. [...]

By: UK POLL: File-Sharers Buy More Music

UK POLL: File-Sharers Buy More Music — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:34:28 +0000

[...] most recent was “Consumer Culture in Times of Crisis,” conducted by the the BI Norwegian School of Management, the largest business school in Norway [...]

By: 50 Cent: “P2P is Part of Music Marketing”

50 Cent: “P2P is Part of Music Marketing” — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:58:43 +0000

[...] studies concluding that P2P actually increases music consumption file-sharing may be an even far better form of marketing for the music industry as a whole than [...]

By: UK Music Consultant to Artists: “Don’t Worry About Piracy”

UK Music Consultant to Artists: “Don’t Worry About Piracy” — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:47:21 +0000

[...] I’d even offer the numerous studies that P2P actually increases music consumption. [...]

By: Band Calls P2P ‘Global Word of Mouth’

Band Calls P2P ‘Global Word of Mouth’ — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:35:49 +0000

[...] left out, and what studies have shown, is that P2P actually increases music consumption because people are able to listen to, become fans [...]