Having Their Cake And Eating It Too: P2P Users Buy 30% More Music According To Survey

It seems obvious that people who share music and movies online spend less money on those things, but recent research actually yields surprisingly counterintuitive results. While some individuals certainly purchase less creative content legally, file sharing in general seems to cause more of this content to be bought on the market.

The research in question was published earlier this month on the Huffington Post and Ars Technica and is of particular interest to users of Ares Free Download whose file sharing experience is slightly different from that of ‘pure’ torrenters.

Sharing Before And After Ares Galaxy

People have been sharing music and movies with their friends and family for many decades. This leads to the somewhat surprising insight that the majority of songs and movies in the collections of non-file sharers is actually of a less than legal nature.

Most of us don’t even think twice about borrowing a DVD from a friend, lending a CD to a family member or making a mix tape for a significant other. Yet these are all examples of file sharing. According to the research the average American has a song collection of 1,300 songs, of which 582 (about 45 percent) were purchased according to the letter of the law.

Ares Download – along with a plethora of other file sharing software – takes the principle of sharing content with friends and family and applies it to an even greater circle of friends and family: the entire internet. Now, people can share their collection with anyone in the world and borrow from anyone as well.

It seems obvious that this should lead to decreased legal purchasing of content, but the research tells us that this is only half true. The average American file sharer has almost 2.000 songs in their collection. A smaller proportion (38 percent) is legal, but in absolute numbers, this translates to a higher absolute amount of legally-bought songs (760).

In other words: the collections of file sharers have a larger proportion of non-legal content in them, but because these people have more than 50% songs in total, they also buy about 30% more music.