andygates

There's a Canadian government report on BoingBoing which seems to prove what I've been saying all along:

• Music sharers buy more music than average ("one additional P2P download per month increases music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year").
• Home ripping is not killing music ("no direct evidence to suggest that the net effect of P2P file sharing on CD purchasing is either positive or negative").

In other words, the people who are ripping and sharing stuff are actually the good guys, and even if they weren't, their transgressions have no impact at all on the overall market.  Music industry, please take note and back the hell off.  We love music.  We buy music.  We share it with our friends.  Now rein in the attack dogs and get back to finding some cool artists.