New study rubbishes claims that net piracy is hitting CD sales - NME.COM

New study rubbishes claims that net piracy is hitting CD sales - NME.COM: "'If this worst-case scenario were true, file sharing would have reduced CD sales by two million copies in 2002. To provide a point of reference, CD sales actually declined by 139 million copies from 2000 to 2002,' claimed the authors. They even found that downloads can help to sell the most popular CDs - for the top 25% best-selling albums, 150 downloads increased sales by one copy. Professor Strumpf added that the American music industry's campaign of legal action against file-sharers which began last September, is likely to prove ineffective."