Surprise, surprise! Downloaders of music buy more CDs
“NYT” report.

“Disputing the position held by the major record companies, a report issued on Friday found that people who use file-sharing networks to obtain music at no charge over the Internet are more likely to have increased their spending on music than are average online music fans.

The report, from Jupiter Research, a market and consumer research firm, also found that people who use high-speed Internet access and CD burners to make homemade compact discs — a practice that has been criticized by the record industry as abetting piracy — are as likely to increase their spending on music as to decrease it.”