Study: P2P Users Buy More Music
A new study by the American Assembly Research Center at Columbia University claims that P2P users buy more music even though most of their collection isn't paid for.
Many in the music industry paint peer-to-peer file-sharers as devil's spawn who suck the life blood out of artists. Some P2P proponents have countered that file-sharing has helped encourage the growth of many bands who would have gone unknown in the CD and cassette age. Now comes a new study that each side could point to as support.
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