D: All Things Digital Conferences
These figures show that there is no sharp divide between file sharers and others in their buying behaviour. On the contrary, when it comes to attending concerts, and expenses on DVDs and games, file sharers are the industry’s largest customers… There does not appear to be a clear relationship between the decline in sales and file sharing.
— Professor Nico van Eijk of the University of Amsterdam, commenting on a major study of Dutch file-sharers