A leading market research firm has recently published the results of a fascinating new study that examined possible links between the current economic recession and illegal file sharing. Contrary to what many industry experts might have expected, there was no strong evidence to suggest a hard and fast link between a reduction in consumer spending habits and illegal file sharing.
With many families facing dire financial difficulties, most experts thought that this would lead to a vast increase in the downloading of music and video files from unlicensed sources, since the sales of CD’s and DVD’s has certainly shown a down turn in recent times. But apparently this is not the case at all.
The only significant findings of the Interpret market research study were that only those people who had made significant cuts in their spending were more likely to engage in the process of downloading music and video files from popular file sharing sites on the Internet. They were also more likely to stop buying CD’s and DVD’s. But since these individuals have little effect on the entertainment industry, it is hardly something for the big boys to lose sleep over.