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Easy allow more p2p downloads...

Piracy not raiding CD sales

The study, conducted by two researchers at the University of London for the Canadian Government, found people downloaded songs illegally because they wanted to hear them before buying or because they were not available in stores.

"We estimate that the effect of one additional P2P (peer-to-peer) download per month is to increase music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year," the researchers found.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 11/06/2007 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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