BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds

BitTorrent Piracy Boosts Music Sales, Study Finds, TorrentFreak – May 17, 2012.  For more than a decade researchers have been looking into the effects of music piracy on the revenues of the record industry, with mixed results. None of these researchers, however, used a large sample of accurate download statistics from a BitTorrent tracker to examine this topic. This missing element motivated economist Robert Hammond, Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, to conduct his own research….