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'Nearly 100 per cent of music fans copy music illegally'

Poll reveals fans' downloading and copying habits

Tue 17 Jun, 2008

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Only 96%? Presumably the other 4% don't have computers. People will still buy albums if they have sufficient incentive (if it's a favourite artist, a well reviewed album or an album with more than one hit on it), but they object to paying just for one song and I can understand that. As the music industry diversifies, it gets harder and harder to hear stuff by new bands in any specific genre. If I couldn't illegally download stuff by new artists to give it a try, I wouldn't have bought many of the albums I've bought in the last couple of years. It's not like we can rely on the radio or the music TV channels to play a good mix of new music (especially if you're not an indie or dance fan), so illegal downloading helps to expose people to new music. As for the artists, the problem here is not that illegal downloading is cutting their profits, but that they are given too small a slice of the pie in the first place due to unfair record label contracts.

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