Study: Music Pirates Buy More Digital Music Than Anyone

Digital pirates buy 10 times more

Piracy has been no small topic in world news lately. The word brings to mind bandits from Somalia for most people, but there is another side to piracy that has been grabbing its share of headlines. I’m talking about so-called digital “pirates” who download music, software, movies and more. Rights of intellectual property and the nature of who owns a work of art notwithstanding, the law has come down on some of the more visible members of the file sharing community, like The Pirate Bay. They may need personal loans and credit repair by the time they’ve made it out the other end of the legal system.

But perhaps old guard lawmakers and the mainstream media are missing something. Perhaps online file sharing is actually a useful marketing tool that exposes the average online consumer. Perhaps it leads to increased real sales. A recent study may shed some truth on this notion. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Study: Music Pirates Buy More Digital Music Than Anyone"