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Record companies and industry groups will not ever admit that piracy doesn't harm sales. They can't! That would be bad for them, as such an admission would encourage people to stop buying music.

I AM glad that research supports the idea that piracy doesn't harm sales, though. It shows that people who can and want to buy music, DO buy, those who can't or don't want to, don't - they either get it illegally or they just don't buy it. They ain't ever gonna buy it, piracy available or no.