Michael sez, "While the Kazaa settlement captured the headlines, the recording industry's international lobby today also released its Piracy Report 2006. Canada has been listed as a priority country since the industry thinks Canadian copyright law doesn't measure up. This posting reviews the claims and finds numerous half-truths and inaccuracies."
"National surveys reveal that of those Canadians spending less on music products, by far the largest single reason cited was downloading/file sharing/CD burning."
Leaving aside the fact that all of the above may be lawful, a more recent CRIA commissioned study by Pollara actually arrived at different conclusions. As I documented last March, when asked why they were spending less on music, survey respondents cited price (16%), nothing of interest (14%), lack of time (13%), downloading (10%), collection is big enough (9%), don't buy (7%), listen to radio (7%), change in tastes (6%), no CD player (3%), have an MP3 player (2%), lack of opportunity to buy (2%), watch more tv (2%), age (1%), only buy what I like (1%).
(Thanks, Michael!)
