Originally Posted by Dirty Dane

Dude, the first "research" you are refering to, is 8-9 years old, so it's useless. Back in those times you also had stuff like mp3.com where "amateurs" actually made some money off publishing their work online. But all that was destroyed when piracy came along on bigger scale. Today you can download almost any album in 10 seconds from a huge database like pirate bay, and pirates are not paying for a download they already did for free..

The second report is 5 years old, and let me learn you some basic math; Percental change is not the same as change in units. The total value show a bigger decrease in physical sales, than the total value of digital downloads. This is of course maybe because of price difference, but there is nowhere it says the smaller increase in legal digital downloads is "caused by pirates". The increased amount of humans and surfers is the main cause, along with technology. Without piracy, the numbers would probably be much much much.. higher.

You are assuming too much with your "correlations" - or just repost manipulated pro-piracy propaganga.