Downloaders Are Big Music Buyers

from the another-study-the-industry-will-ignore dept

Well, I'm sure the music industry will simply ignore this report (or deny that it's true), but yet another study has come out showing that (well, duh!) music downloaders are the biggest music fans and are as likely as anyone else to buy the music they find. The study also found that it's not just teenagers downloading tunes, but people of all age ranges.
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Sep 2003 @ 6:06am

    not me... not any more..

    ...and defintely not after the RIAA's most recent witch hunts.

    Now it's purely about damaging a moronic industry that's completely lost touch with reality.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    achacha, 18 Sep 2003 @ 10:11am

    Re: not me... not any more..

    Not anymore, I used to spend 100+ dollars a month on CDs when I could sample what I was about to buy. I am now boycotting and not buy any more CDs, I am sticking to concerts. RIAA is doing more harm to the music industry than it can imagine.

    I also destroyed all of my metallica CDs because honestly after the first 3 they really sucked and I can understand why they don't want people to hear other songs on the later albums, that is because they only have 1 good song per album and people won't buy their crap once they hear it.

    This is also true for many 1-hit-wonders that rely of decption to sell albums.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Sep 2003 @ 11:18am

    No Subject Given

    Great now RIAA will simply sue anybody that buys music.

    'Here's your bag sir, and by the way I already put your supobena in there for you. Your court date seems to be two weeks from Thursday. Have a nice day.'

    link to this | view in thread ]


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