Japanese study: P2P doesn't hurt CD sales

In line with the results of other studies on the subject, it seems the Mobile Society Research Institute (a subsidiary of cellphone giant NTT DoCoMo) has come out with the interim results of a survey into usage of P2P filesharing software Winny, whose creator is currently in the dock for supposedly causing people to download things illegally (strong logic, there). They found that while downloads increased the larger the sales of a particular CD was, there was no effect the other way -- Winny downloads did not either increase or decrease the sales a particular album generated. They also found in a questionnaire to students that their CD purchases were not affected by their starting to use Winny.

[Via Slashdot-J (Japanese)]