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by trogdor 713 days ago
> people who pirate music also buy a lot of music, when the price is below the impulse buy threshold; see Bandcamp or Apple Music

How do the existence of Bandcamp and Apple Music support your claim that people who pirate music also buy a lot of music?

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I think he's given you examples of where music can be priced "below the impulse buy threshold".

Supporting the claim are several studies that pirates or piracy advocates are often familiar with.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...

https://corsearch.com/content-library/blog/does-piracy-impac...

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/663157