A new study shows that Spotify turns pirates into paying customers

Online piracy has always been more of a matter of convenience than money, and now there’s even more data to prove that. A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found that music streaming services like Spotify have a direct effect on music piracy. According to the study, whenever the number of people streaming a song increases, the number of people pirating that same song decreases, which is what many people predicted would happen when music streaming services started coming out, including Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.