DonFerrari said:
If i'm not wrong super string theory is applied in gravity as Eistein expanded relativity theory. If one thing in science just the axioms don't change (as "there is gravity") but how it work always change during more discoveries... And all time economics have new studies that change fundation, if not why would be neo-liberals, classics and different lines of studies??? Are you economist by the way?? Because China growth were based in piracy and stealth that didn't helped other markets if not for theirself. I see you skiped the discussion about the article you brought and how piracy help music... And in the market theories i studied the basis were never that a person preffer to buy for the right price than to steal... people don't steal for 2 reasons, one is the fear of being caught and the other ethics and social reason not because they like to spend their money... maybe you should put togheter the studies from diferent knowledges... the foundation of humanity is to take by force when you can.
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I skipped the discussion about the article, because it was completely pointless. You brought up zero valid points.
These studies are all over the place and repeatable, and who are they going to be paid for? You think pirates aren't buying music, but are spending way more money to fund pro piracy studies?
For what it's worth though, they were comparing teens vs other teens
The BI Norwegian School of Management yesterday released a report stating that teenagers who use P2P "unpaid downloading" services actually pay for ten times as much music as those who have not used P2P services. "This confirms that, even with declining CD sales, people do understand that copyrighted music recordings cost money," says assistant professor Audun Molde.
http://www.p2p-weblog.com/50226711/study_finds_pirates_buy_more_music.php
"The study was conducted amongst 1,901 participants over the age of 15," writes Geek.com's John Brownlee. "Not only were the music pirates of the bunch ten times more likely to download to pay music, but half the participants in the range of the ages of between fifteen and twenty had bought a CD in the last six months. Conclusion: music pirates are actually the music industry's largest source of legitimate online customers."
It's almost either a slight positive correlation, or no correlation at all when it comes to piracy and sales.
"University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians and concluded that that people who download more music actually buy more CDs: “We estimate that the effect of one additional P2P download per month is to increase music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.” This translates into: if someone downloads 270 songs a year, he or she will buy 9 CDs more than someone who only downloads 27 songs. Overall the researchers found no difference between pirates and other people in the number of CDs they buy nor did they find a positive or a negative relationship between filesharing and CD sales. Quick, someone send a memo to the RIAA that they’re suing their own customers."
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/11/03/canadian-study-piracy-boosts-cd-sales
Heck, even the "paid for" studies are pretty damning just most of the info isn't aloud to be published.
"Mulligan has his hands tied and couldn’t say much about the findings without IFPI’s approval, but we managed to get confirmation that paying file-sharers are the music industry’s best customers. “A significant share of music buyers are file sharers also. These music buyers tend to be higher spending music buyers,” Mulligan told TorrentFreak."
http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-the-music-industrys-most-valuable-customers-100122/
26 percent say they spend either a little or a lot more music as a direct result... though 47 percent of filesharers buy the same amount as they used to, 19 percent either buy a little or a lot less as a result.
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-research-p2p-filesharing-no-barrier-to-music-sales/
