Sweden Sees Legal Music Sales Boost Following Pirate Bay Case

Legal music sales in Sweden have increased since four men involved with The Pirate Bay torrent sharing website were convicted of copyright infringement in April and new anti-piracy legislation was introduced, it has been revealed.

The website founders are contesting year-long prison sentences after the Stockholm trial while a new law, the IPRED anti-piracy law, which allowed copyright holders (such as record labels) to be given the IP addresses of suspected illegal filesharers, a move which could lead to them being prosecuted.

In the first nine months of 2009 legal recorded music sales increased by 18 per cent, reports Billboard. There was an 80 per cent increase in digital sales and a nine per cent increase in physical sales.

Market research firm GfK found that 60 per cent of users aged 15-74 had reduced the amount of filesharing they did since the Pirate Bay ruling.

Meanwhile Spotify chiefs said that the amount of subscribers to their premium streaming service had increased by 17 per cent in the country in the same time frame.

Thanks for the report to Nme.com.

Comments

[Kiffa]

One word...

Christmas.

[ashers67]

Kiffa wrote:

One word...

Christmas.

Exactly.
Plus Spotify has hardly been out that long at all, is just growing naturally surely? 17% in one country for 7 months isn't that great either, surely? (Maybe if it was the USA and not Sweden, perhaps it would be) Also 17% increase on 100 is only 17 more customers. This percent is pretty measly if they didn't have a significant number of customers before hand to increase upon.

And 60% of 15-74 year old users, in Sweden isn't a great deal is it? The age gap is so broad, the real figures of how much the age gap that does most illegal downloading and uses the internet much more often will probably be much less than that.

The use of "numbers" and "facts" to make articles and arguments more credible, when they don't actually tell the whole story really grinds my gears

[strat0blaster]

ashers67 wrote:

Kiffa wrote:

One word...

Christmas.

Exactly.
Plus Spotify has hardly been out that long at all, is just growing naturally surely? 17% in one country for 7 months isn't that great either, surely? (Maybe if it was the USA and not Sweden, perhaps it would be) Also 17% increase on 100 is only 17 more customers. This percent is pretty measly if they didn't have a significant number of customers before hand to increase upon.

And 60% of 15-74 year old users, in Sweden isn't a great deal is it? The age gap is so broad, the real figures of how much the age gap that does most illegal downloading and uses the internet much more often will probably be much less than that.

The use of "numbers" and "facts" to make articles and arguments more credible, when they don't actually tell the whole story really grinds my gears

I bet you just LOVE Fox Media, huh?

Anyway - so Swedish people flip out when one torrent site gets issues. That's not the case everywhere.

[XahXhaX]

I call BS. The site is still up, with only the tracker being down and numerous places have already pointed out that DHT works fine. In other words, there has been absolutely no interruption nor impact on the health of file sharing or its future.

In other words, The Pirate Bay as a factor is entirely irrelevant.

[Hutch323]

Exactly, The RIAA and it's cronies are lashing out against anyone and anything, because they didn't think that they made enough profit.