The results of a survey, announced yesterday, show that the biggest buyers of music are in fact those that pirate the most. The conclusions come from a poll of 1,000 people between the ages of 16 and 50, with 10% of those admitting they download music illegally — so it’s not a huge slice of the population, and it’s by no means conclusive, but I think it just confirms what we already know: it’s the music fans that download all the music.
It’s the music fans that watch live performances and go the extra mile to get the t-shirts and the posters and track down out-of-print B-sides. The survey shows that the average music downloader spends £77 ($126) a year on music — while the non-downloader only spends £44.
This probably isn’t very big news for you in America — we all know the RIAA are draconian bitches, nothing new, move along now — but here in the UK we’re about to have a law passed that will allow people to be banned from the Internet if they continue to download music illegally after a written warning. It just stinks of poorly-informed lobbying by the BPI — the British equivalent of the RIAA.
[via The Independent]
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