Filesharing makes me spend money on music dept.
Surprise, surprise - a British study has found that those who download music illegally spend more on legal downloads than those who don't. And not a little bit more - four and a half times more. I'm pretty damn sure you'll see similar (albeit not as extreme) results if they look at figures for buying music offline for the two groups.
It's also interesting to note that record industry's response seems to be this:
"Our concern is that file sharers' expenditure on music overall is down," said Phillips, who says that two-thirds of file-sharers buy less music than they used to.
I'm not convinced this has anything to do with illegal downloading. The simple fact is when you start doing something like this you are likely to start out spending more because you are catching up, buying all the already extent music you want. Once you've caught up as much as you want, you'll still buy new music, but the amount isn't going to be the same, for obvious reasons. Or, to put it another way: You don't bother buying the Beatles twice.
It's also interesting to note that record industry's response seems to be this:
"Our concern is that file sharers' expenditure on music overall is down," said Phillips, who says that two-thirds of file-sharers buy less music than they used to.
I'm not convinced this has anything to do with illegal downloading. The simple fact is when you start doing something like this you are likely to start out spending more because you are catching up, buying all the already extent music you want. Once you've caught up as much as you want, you'll still buy new music, but the amount isn't going to be the same, for obvious reasons. Or, to put it another way: You don't bother buying the Beatles twice.
Ah, but different formats are an entirely different kettle of fish. You don't often see someone buying another CD copy of the white album if nothing has happened to their first, do you? And you certainly don't see them paying to download something they have on their computer already.
Posted by
Ian |
6:15 PM