luke.thunk.it

I’m confused by this story, it says they “looked at almost 2,000 online music users”, and that “those who downloaded ‘free’ music … were also 10 times more likely to pay for music”.

How does that work? it must mean that a lot of the other users only listen online, and don’t pay for any music at all.

Also, I don’t like the way they bundle legal and illegal “free” downloads in with each other. I download free music, but all of it legal, so that in no way implies that someone who pirates music is also more likely to pay for it.

I’d like to read the original research article, anyone got a link?

Oh, and I was also disappointed that this wasn’t an article about how Somalians love to buy music.