Wired News: Maybe the Music's Just Lousy?

Study on DLing and effect on record sales that believes that dling has little effect on record sales. Not sure if I 100% buy this, but downloading does expose you to a lot of different genres of music and many songs that you would never ever have purchased, so some of it makes sense.

"While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought the album even in the absence of file sharing," they said.