For years and years, illegal downloaders have thrown a bunch of statistics in the face of those who support prosecution of illegal downloaders.

One of the most common, though, is how people who download music actually end up spending more on music than people who don’t.

The Daily Mail wrote about the most recent survey in their paper on Sunday…

The study, published today by think-tank Demos, found those who admit to file sharing spent an average £77 a year on singles and albums – £33 more than those who claim never to have wrongly accessed music for free.

Researcher Peter Bradwell said the findings should force companies and politicians to ‘wake up to the changing nature’ of the music industry as the Government plans to disconnect illegal downloaders from the internet in a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule.

The argument with this information is that people who download music do it solely to preview the songs to ensure that they’re actually going to like the entire CD.   But let’s be honest with ourselves: how many people do you know who exclusively do that?

People who have adopted this strategy might spend their money on legitimate music, but many artists continue to get financially snubbed and it’s still not fair for the artists or record companies.

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This post was written by Eric Van Dril.  For more of his writing, check out RipcordNews.com.