Shocking: Pirates Like Britney Spears Too

[anon]

A study conducted by PRS, the British music royalty collection agency, looked into the downloading habits of the average user of file-sharing networks. They found that the most downloaded tracks mimic the music charts. That is, people tend to download music that's already popular.

Shocking: Pirates Like Britney Spears Too | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/shocking-pirates-like-britney-spears-too-090514/)

[slikrapid]

that was to be expected, 'popular' music is mostly created with the goal to attract large groups of listeners and with a big marketing everyone knows about them - this is also the reason it uses 'known to work' formulas for setting trends and/or exploiting them

the article does a decent job 'revealing' the real results

article:

Merchandising and playing gigs are the largest source of income, income that is generated by fans.


some people are supporting the idea to let the digital music be free to all and that bands should go back to how it was before, meaning they should limit their income on the two aforementioned sources


article:

Contrary to the conclusions of the PRS study, a special brand of ‘pirates’ are particularly interested in new and unsigned bands.

:rolling_eyes:
its called: curiosity, buzz, keeping up with/exploring the genre, increasing the ratio with new entries,...
as for scene 'pirates' - like someone said - they'll just 'pirate' anything you give them (with some exceptions ofc)