Music Pirates More Likely to Buy Songs Too – Study


	Music Pirates More Likely to Buy Songs Too – Study

Fast T friend

4-22-2009 5:11 AM

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But that’s only part of the story. Online distribution of music isn’t geared toward album sales, which generate higher profits for the labels, but rather toward individual songs. In other words, industry revenues aren’t falling solely because pirates steal songs, but rather because music fans are buying tracks, not albums.

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