Comments on: Study: P2P thieves buy more music

Music pirates may turn out to be the industry's best customers, as a Norwegian study shows. Should we simply acknowledge that piracy may precede purchase?

[fdunn3]

I believe that, at least in my case. Although I have not illegally downloaded music and definitely not video (no way jose) in a long long time I find myself listening to some of the songs I did get in the past (before the RIAA stepped in) and wind up buying more songs and even albums from what used to be MSN Music (I wish they would bring that back), and Amazon.
I don't buy pre-pressed music CDs anymore because I have to buy the whole freakin' album to get just one or two songs. Even when the whole album on CD is good it's still less expensive to purchase it from Amazon.
Now for DVDs, I only purchase DVDs and DVD sets. I fail to see the value in the whole renting scenario as I can watch them over and over. The last thing I would do is get a movie online either legally or illegally.
I want the movie studios to make a profit so they can churn out more good movies.

One last note, I will never EVER purchase music with DRM again.

[fondy]

All this tells me is that customers like to try before they buy.
That may just be a good tactic for car salesmen. Oh, wait...

[pentest]

When are you people going to drop the theft RIAA talking point?

Copyright infringement is not piracy and it is not theft.

[Inconnux]

Years ago I use to pirate movies, until the 'you wouldn't steal' ads came out and someone I know asked me how I could justify stealing. I had no answer so I stopped. Funny thing was that when I was pirating movies I would go and see 1-2 movies a week in the theater, especially the ones that really need to be appreciated in the theater. I also bought a heck of a lot of DVD's of the other movies I liked. Crappy 'handycam' copies of block buster movies are usually barely watchable. This also helped me miss a few major stinkers (Battlefield earth!). Now, I think the last movie I watched in the theater was 300, and my interest in movies has dropped to an all time low... just not interested.

As for music, there really is no reason to pirate... there is Youtube. If you want to 'pirate' music you can easily rip the MP3 from the Youtube stream. The last two albums I purchased were because I listened to them on Youtube and was impressed.