Piracy actually good for music sales?

Another day, another article that actually points out that downloading music illegally may be beneficial. From an article on Ars Technica, it suggests that people who download music illegally actually buy 30% more music than those who don't.

And who says Piracy is killing music sales again?

Seriously, music execs: change the fucking record.

Article available at:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/new-music-survey-p2p-users-buy-the-most-no-one-wants-disconnection-penalties/

Piracy boosts music sales?

Piracy =/= stealing. Learn the difference

I recently came across an article online that argues that file sharing (in this case, file sharing using bit torrent as a medium) actually provides a boost for music sales. The author of this piece is actually an economist, a Mr Robert Hammond, who collected data about music downloaded and analysed this in regard to actual sales and found that it actually helped to sell more copies.