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Filesharers Are the Biggest Legitimate Buyers of Music, Study Says
dailytech.com - 11/3/2009
Filesharers Are the Biggest Legitimate Buyers of Music, Study Says
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Perhaps the music industry should think twice before alienating some of its highest profile customers

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Study Says Pirates Buy Plenty of Legitimate Digital Music
Maximum PC — ... A United Kingdom research group, Demos, did just that, and surprise, surprise, they discovered that those people who confessed to pirating music were also those who spent the most on music. Pirates spend, on average, $126 per year on CDs, MP3s, and vinyl. Non-pirates (landlubbers?), on the other hand, only spend, on average, $72 per year. ...

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