One of the entertainment industry’s favorite claims is that illegal file-sharing has discouraged people from producing new movies or albums, for example. It then argues society as a whole suffers as a result.
A new Harvard Business School study conducted by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf contradicts this claim with a variety of gathered evidence.
...then pretends to be mad, then gets caught. Their new album was posted to BitTorrent, a popular file sharing network before actually being released on CD. According to the article, the band got busted for uploading the album themselves.