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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ entertainment/music/3052145.stm

Study shows people that download music largely use it as a "try before you buy" scheme, to widen their tastes and check out a band they might not ordinarily pay £15.99 on the off-chance of liking it

*slow clap*
Yet again the government realises years after it's obvious

I never buy cd's anyways.

But i plan tyo get 'The darkness's' album

Growing on me really is class.

But, to be honest, i use kazaa as my sole music source. I find it a lot easier to put my 100+ songs pon 'random' than swap Cd's every 10 minutes

I use Kazaa to mostly download anime. I haven't downloaded much recently, but I've found it a really useful way of viewing the first few episodes of a series or a film to see if it's any good or not. It has lead me to purchasing dvds that I wouldn't have risked buying had I not been able to "test the water".
It's not cool to buy a dvd (and anime ones aren't always the cheapest about) just to find it's tosh, so Kazaa is great in that respect.
I'd never think of downloading films/episodes to sell or anything like that, so using it as a private test-screen is handy.

My brother downloads quite a bit of music, but he spends 1000's of pounds each year going to Glastonbury/Reading/V and loads of gigs, so that's ok as he forks out plenty of OTT cash already.

Yup, agree with Bell.

I've got into so many bands because I downloaded a track or two. It's a lot easier than spending for a CD on the chance you *might* like it.

I'm the same, the stuff I have used Broadband to get off Kazaa has led to me actually buying more things than if I had not downloaded them.

Downloaded one thing as a divx file, liked it so went out and bought it on DVD, and the soundtrack to it. £30 quid spent because of downloading.

Even though my music tastes are limited to soundtracks, pop and the odd bit of country I've bought plenty of stuff where the first I'd heard of the artist was on an MP3.

Sure, some people don't do this, but I say those who are genuinely just freeloading everything are in a small youthful minority.

The government, quite frankly, is crap.

It probably took them £16 million of taxpayers money to figure it out too.

I've spent much more money on buying albums since I got broadband than I ever did before.

But not because I download music, no sir. That's wrong, kids.
*runs*

That's the only reason I download stuff anyway

Unless it's rare b-sides and live stuff

"they bought albums after hearing tracks through the internet."

Didn't say the album was the same as the music they'd listened too.
So they listened to some pirated mp3s and then went and bought some different music, that they deemed was worth paying for.....

"...Music Programming Ltd (MPL) said 87% of its respondents who downloaded music admitted they bought albums after hearing tracks through the internet."
*****

How can they be positive that the people they asked weren't lying through their back teeth, incase they got in legal crap for it?

Providing you have the money to purchase said CD. And you have a conscience not to use your 2mb connection to get a whole album in less time than it takes to go down the shops.....