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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Not exactly unbiased though is it?
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Considering that they were the source for an article you quoted in post #18 of this very thread, you might want to reconsider that criticism.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
If those high profile piracy sites being closed down in the same year isn't responsible for the drop in digital sales, what is?
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Which "high profile piracy sites" are you talking about? The only real shutdown last year was Limewire, and apparently users largely shifted over to Bittorrent. The Pirate Bay, despite losing a heavily publicized court case, is still operating in most countries.
And, as you apparently missed, there was a correlation between high profile enforcement and an increase in digital sales (e.g. IPRED in Sweden). Not the other way around.
By the way, digital sales haven't dropped or fallen. What has happened is the rate of growth is slowing. The prevailing theory is that the market for digital downloads has matured.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
And if "free stuff" is the only motivation for piracy, why are the free music sites not doing as well as the pirate sites?
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Which "free music sites" are you referring to? I'm not aware of any commercial enterprise that offers unlimited downloads of any material the user wants at no cost whatsoever.
The closest you get are services like Spotify, Pandora, and Last.fm which are popular and growing. But those are streaming services, which clearly is not the same.