Music pirates are also the biggest spenders on recorded music, according to research from a Columbia University affiliate.

Copy Culture in the US and Germany - a research paper conducted by The American Assembly, which is attached to Columbia University, suggests that “If absolute spending is the metric, then P2P users value music more highly than their non-P2P using, digital-collecting peers, not less.”

The table below shows the difference in music consumption between P2P and non-P2P users - highlighting that, ...