It looks like a decent survey folks one that seems to reflect many of the points folks have put forward over the years.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/16/bmr_music_survey/A fascinating survey of music consumption conducted for British Music Rights has good and bad news for the beleaguered music business.
The bad news: online file sharing is more prevalent than other surveys suggest. The good news: a lot of people are willing to pay for a service that offers legal, licensed P2P file sharing. Half the people surveyed think distributors such as large telecomms companies should pay creators from the proceeds of such a license. And a surprisingly large number of people still value physical music goods, with two thirds of potential subscribers to legal P2P saying that they would continue to buy CDs.
Legal P2P services have been waiting in the wings for years, and telcos and ISPs are keen to offer innovative music sharing services that allow them to escape the fate of being in a low-margin commodity business. However, the biggest labels have feared that a service would cannibalise their physical sales; and without the ability to offer all music, telcos won't bite. The BMR survey may persuade rights holders to break the impasse.
74 per cent of people surveyed said they wanted a legal P2P service where they could "own" and keep the songs downloaded. The figure rose to 80 per cent amongst active P2P downloaders.
The facts here have been known by the recording industry for years, people want to own their purchase, by stealing the right of ownership and replacing it with a rental style download licence they have selfishly put the consumer in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to legal downloads, its not even any cheaper to download a poor quality DRM ridden file when you total the amount up you can purchase a CD without such anti consumer fixtures.
Let us hope they wake up and take on board the simplicity of the consumer, they will pay money to own a digital download of decent quality, they will not do so when they feel they are being stolen from, it really is that simple.
