Illegal downloaders spend the most on music, says poll
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I could have told you that without a poll
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Finally the truth comes out, I beleive this is the case for a lot of people that download music illegally, (not all before people jump in), I download music 
and I also purchase a crap load of the stuff I enjoy, usually I'll just spam a genre and download a crap ton of albums and every album I like I'll order on-line for a pittance, you can get most albums for £7/8 these days if your search around, this usually enables me to find great bands and artists that I haven't discovered before, honestly if it wasn't for torrentz many of these artists wouldn't of received a penny from me.
and I also purchase a crap load of the stuff I enjoy, usually I'll just spam a genre and download a crap ton of albums and every album I like I'll order on-line for a pittance, you can get most albums for £7/8 these days if your search around, this usually enables me to find great bands and artists that I haven't discovered before, honestly if it wasn't for torrentz many of these artists wouldn't of received a penny from me.
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Well not for music, but it is certainly true for DVDs and blurays. last year I spent 4 figures on them and lets just say most of my collection is still shrink rapped.
Since getting my hands on spotify my music spending has dropped a bit - and rendered pirating pointless for all but the very hardest to find tracks - but I spend WAY more than £77 a year on music... if it wasn't for the ability to quickly check out tunes on youtube, via less legal methods, spotify, etc. my spending would probably be closer to nothing...
I would say that for every freeloading pirating scum, theres atleast another 1-2 people downloading who spend a considerable extra on music due to the increased exposure... and no doubt theres a knock on effect where those freeloaders either through playing the music or sharing it with friends expose people who are willing to give something back who will then go on to buy more music from those artists...
Stifling piracy will ironically result in a massive drop in revenue... and I wonder what they will blame that on...
The media companies need to concentrate on making convenient, fairly priced (for both parties) distribution systems with timely addition of new content and educating at a grass roots level the basic concepts of copyright and giving something back.
I would say that for every freeloading pirating scum, theres atleast another 1-2 people downloading who spend a considerable extra on music due to the increased exposure... and no doubt theres a knock on effect where those freeloaders either through playing the music or sharing it with friends expose people who are willing to give something back who will then go on to buy more music from those artists...
Stifling piracy will ironically result in a massive drop in revenue... and I wonder what they will blame that on...
The media companies need to concentrate on making convenient, fairly priced (for both parties) distribution systems with timely addition of new content and educating at a grass roots level the basic concepts of copyright and giving something back.
Hmm.
The thing is, people who freely admit to downloading music justify it by saying they go out and buy the stuff they really like. People who don't admit to it but do it anyway don't bother justifying it like that.
Dodgy survey.
The thing is, people who freely admit to downloading music justify it by saying they go out and buy the stuff they really like. People who don't admit to it but do it anyway don't bother justifying it like that.
Dodgy survey.
Big business doesn't care about the £300, they care about the "lost revenue" of what you didn't buy, even though you wouldn't have bought it anyway.
Sadly true... shame they don't realise he probably wouldn't have spent that £300 without the more open access to music in the first place.
Which is why they are harming themselves.
If I hadn't have had the opportunity to listen to all sorts of stuff on my mp3 player/computer, i'd have never discovered some bands or developed my knowledge and bought older stuff.
Without illegal downloading i'd still be borrowing cd's and copying them and never buying them myself. Although now I've moved onto buying vinyl.
This is the way I want to go myself. Just trying to justify the initial outlay of buying a deck and preamp.
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Where as Steve-Hs post gone? - it's in my email.
