Okay, Illegal Downloads Probably Are Hurting The Music Industry

Dan Moore March 22, 2013 6:10AM

This would have surprised me no matter who had turned it up, but there was a special irony in learning that illegal music downloads "aren't hurting the music industry" from a beleaguered print magazine's free-news arm:

Illegal downloads aren't hurting the music industry, new study claims | ti.me/10371Ow (via @timeculture)
— TIME.com (@TIME) March 21, 2013

I am a sucker for newsweeklies, which is why--against all odds--I follow TIME magazine on Twitter. They're my own personal twee affectation: Some people smoke a pipe, or only listen to music on vinyl; I read a hundred-page summary of the news once a week on paper. But something about the headline didn't sit right with me, which is why I wasn't surprised to learn that their tweet is a misreading of both the study and their actual article about the study. In their defense, I probably wouldn't have clicked on "Illegal downloads are hurting the music industry, new study claims."

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Dan Moore