pirates--or customers?

HBS Working Knowledge: "Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music.

Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his co-author Koleman Strumpf, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their paper, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales," caused a ruckus in the music industry not seen since the British invasion of the Beatles."