File sharers Big Music’s best customers
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- According to a new study, far from being the death of the corporate music industry, file sharing may be helping to keep it on life support.
A new report says people who, “download music illegally are also 10 times more likely to pay for songs than those who don’t,” says The Guardian.
This is only news to the mainstream media.
And ironically, it comes from the BI Norwegian School of Management with Norway as the latest country to announced it’s become a corporate copyright cop funded by local taxpayers.
“Everybody knows that music sales have continued to fall in recent years, and that filesharing is usually blamed,” says the story.
Absolutely correct.
The music loving public has become sick and tired of reading about people being sued by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music for doing what comes naturally, and their disgust shows up in the form of ongoing international boycotts.
“The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15,” says the story.
“Researchers found that those who downloaded ‘free’ music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry’s largest audience for digital sales.”
And, “the study did not rely on music pirates’ honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.”
Stay tuned.
The Guardian – Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music, April 21, 2009
corporate copyright cop – Norway joins Sweden in anti-P2P move, April 20, 2009
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April 21st, 2009 at 8:03 am
didn’t roger wallis reveal information similar to this in the tpb trial? who knows, maybe if people do this enough times, mafiaa might end up listening.
wouldn’t that be something.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
It all does not matter much, they only promote beauty not talent.
So even if they stopped sueing we would just be back to the next set of hosebags, singing their I am a slut songs with no musical talent behind them.
Or the next crappy album from guns and roses or Ozzy, like we seriously needed more of that.
They have ruined music and made it worse ever since videos, talent bands don’t get promoted because they are not pretty enough for a video. This is the real reason sales have sucked.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:43 am
It’s a trap!
They only want us to stop fileshare so we can make sure they will die!
April 21st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
“File sharers Big Music’s best customers”
Well! Not anymore because we are now boycotting.
(COMPANIES OF PARASITES WE BOYCOTT UNTIL THEY DIE: Warner Bros/Time Warner, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony/BMG, Vivendi/Universal, EMI.)
April 21st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
“maybe if people do this enough times, mafiaa might end up listening”
They will start to listen only when we start to shoot them but it will be too late.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm
The point is two fold.
One is that music lovers want to hear the songs first and they don’t want trash. So they will get just the songs that are good and leave the rest unsold.
The other is that p2p has become the place to hear new stuff. It isn’t offered on the radio except for those they want to be the major hits. The major hits usually aren’t very good when you get down to it as it is all homogeneous to try and make sure they are big sellers. Music listeners aren’t fooled and because of that the hits don’t last very long on the top before they sink down into the mass of unwanted crap. What’s a hit today no one wants in the modern music next year.
Back in the past, the single was the way songs were sold. Albums were pushed as the great way to make a lot more money. Lessor talents meant less to fill the album with that were good and so the filler was born. So they sowed the seeds of the present conditions that reflect no one wants the filter, only that one or two good songs. They’re still selling music, just not albums where the real profit is.
The majors grew larger and larger in corporate size with the inflow of major money. Now they are on a serious diet and are having to shrink back to what they were before all the schemes came to produce more money. What is missing in this is that there are now no local DJs that play the local bands. You don’t hear something that payolla in it’s new form doesn’t approve of. That has dropped the interest level in these made groups and people are now looking for other means to entertainment that isn’t music.
Various other countries have major import fees on that music that isn’t home grown. They are so out of range of the average Joe that piracy is really the only way to make any sort of collection. Even in the countries where major music is accepted, it’s price is still too high for what you get. It’s just not a value worth paying such prices as are demanded for.
I can think of no other business that sue’s it’s own best customers. While they may not believe they are doing damage to themselves, it is becoming more and more evident as they time and again get laws made to their benefit only to find it doesn’t help. It’s a sign they have peed in their own food bowl and they aren’t liking the taste at all.
So sad, too bad. The world will be a better place without big music in it’s present form.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I downloaded 2 albums yesterday, one of which I’d never heard of before I went to the site. I also received 6 albums in the mail from BMG music service that I paid for by bands that I have heard of. You do the math…
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I fileshare AND buy CDs. Why? Because it isn’t always that the album I wish to listen to is popular enough to be available on Demonoid or TPB! Or sometimes I find out about something two years after its release, which is no longer being seeded.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:52 am
for as long as internet is alive, I think they can no longer stop sharing.. they should at least think os other strategies to increase sales.. else they should wish that people should be all greedy.