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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
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Clearly you haven't done any research and you keep assuming....
Take some time, do some searches, use places like Jupiter Research and read things like...
"It is safe to say that active usage of online music content is one of the best predictors of increased consumer purchasing," Aram Sinnreich wrote in the report. He's talking about all music, pirated, traded, purchased, etc..
Check over markets in other countries and in N. America... find that digital growth is took over, live shows are growing... shifts in markets do not mean problems,
as 2005 year end stats show.
This is a baby amount of data... you can find 10,000's of hours of research data to go through. I'm more amazed these industries are still growing... that's not normal, even though we all like to pretend it is.
What's an odd stat to find is the Countries that have hardcore piracy laws and enforce them, also have the slowest growth in the movie, music, game and software Industries.
Oh yeah, it's not like Pirate Bay is going to have some higher % of buyers than the rest of the net, which is actually remarkably low if you ask them if they would pay for something that is normally free. But if you ask how many have purchased music/movie or games in the last 6 months, it's not so low.....
The statistics are telling a different story, all over the world.