New Study in UK: High Prices for Music Downloads Account for Piracy

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If you want to expand your music collection and illegal downloading just doesn’t suit you, CompareDownload might be a good place to start. It offers plenty of useful info about artists and bands, reviews, concert tickets, and best of all, how you can buy their music and what’s the best price you can hope for.

Recently, the site has also conducted a survey that shows more than 60% of people living in the UK would buy music using online services if it was cheaper. According to the survey, while the average UK citizen spends £10,000 ($16,000) on music during their lifetime, out of those surveyed, 42% of men and 29% of women said ‘yes’ when asked if they illegally download music.

The numbers went even higher when the report focused on Welsh – it seems that most of the online piracy origins here as almost 50% of those who participated in the survey admitted to illegal file sharing. Law seems to weigh more in East Anglia where only 18% said they get music from the Internet illegally. That adds up to nearly 75% of the UK citizens for whom the current prices for a music album is too high. Maybe that would make some record labels think. Or maybe not. Perhaps if they lowered those fees, the online music services must pay them, or they would create some reasonable online music services of their own and stop winning all the time about file sharers, spending time and money in efforts to cut them off from the Internet or squeeze the last pence (or nickel) out of their pockets…Oh, I guess I’m already being unreasonable myself.