Illegal downloaders spend the most on music, says poll

Jotun said:
Anyone else think that figures a little low? Looking at the people I know, it's more like 70-80% I reckon. I study engineering so a lot of my friends are fairly tech savy, but I'd expect higher.
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And it would be a lot lower for the older range of people in that survey.
 
I don't download music in any form, I don't go to gigs, say maybe once every 5 years. I don't buy CD's.

Radio 2, Radio 4 and talksport are good enough for me!
 
Johnny Girth said:
I think you'll struggle. There's no reason to buy the bulky and outdated format that is vinyl :confused:
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Because that is not the appeal of vinyl. The mastering is much better. There is higher dynamic range plus their are subtleties that you do not hear on the CD version. And these are just observations I've made listening to 24bit rips of them (weighing in over a GB per album).
 
Trifid said:
And it would be a lot lower for the older range of people in that survey.
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The company I used to work for had a lot of people at the upper end of the range, and beyond. A lot of them seemed pretty familiar with file sharing.
 
YouTube has a rubbish sound quality since it's compressed a lot.
I get most of my music through dnbshare.com is where the artist uploads their tracks for free.
 
I'm massively sceptical about this poll...

I get the feeling that they've taken a load of people that have no interest in music (who will neither download nor buy music) completely messing it up. I spend way more than £77 a year on music, yet don't pirate.

As for the whole 1 in 10, 16 to 50 year olds. Seems like a gross underestimate, I'm guessing a lot of their sample are lying about it.

vonhelmet said:
It still doesn't make copyright infringement right, though it does knock a hole in one of the more common arguments.
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I'd agree. With spotify, last.fm and youtube, why use illegal downloads as a "discovery" method.
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
What a load of crap, if you download music you DONT spend more on it... that doesnt make any sense at all.
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Err yes it does...

If you download songs by artist XYZ and like them then there is a chance you will buy an album of theirs. Of course, you might not, but there is a chance that you will. If you hadn't downloaded them, and hence never heard them then there is zero chance of you buying their album!

Makes sense to me anyway :cool:
 
What about if you download the album you are after, it is virtually CD quality so you don't bother to buy the CD because there's no point. I believe this is rather more common.
 
I'm not surprised one bit. An earlier study from Canada found exactly the same thing.

Could there be some correlation between people who listen to lots of music who also buy lots of music??????? :eek:
 
orderoftheflame said:
I'd agree. With spotify, last.fm and youtube, why use illegal downloads as a "discovery" method.
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I do use them from time to time but the way it works with me a bit different, I'll download say 30 random albums of a particular genre of music, now I'll slowly work my way through those albums and listen to them as if they are mine on my mp3 player, any that I really like I'll order them on-line, actually what I used to do before my local CD/Record store closed down was every 6 months or so I'd give them a printout of a list of albums that I wanted that came from torrents and get him to order them for me all at once @ a reduced rate, sometime I'll have an illegally downloaded album for months that I enjoy but I'll usually pick it up in the end and a bulk of albums I've purchased has been new artists/bands that I wouldn't of usually came across before.

Sometimes you can come across an album full of random artists and there be one song on there that I'll love, I'll then hunt down that particular artists and see if they have any albums, if they do I'll download the lot and order the ones I like over time, it's like a drug for music enthusiasts, sifting through all the crap you've downloaded finding new artists and albums that then sometimes link you to another artist or album that that help you find that undiscovered album that is euphoria for the ears, all always purchase what gives me that feeling, sometimes I've really went out of my way contacting record labels trying to get out of print CD's of particular albums I've found, even tried to convince a few artists over the years to try and get their label to redistribute an old album they have on their catalogue a few times :o

The majority of people that have a passion for music will always purchase it imo, for me personally now that I have more exposure to different kinds of music I find myself spending more on it.
 
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