The Register®  Original URL:  American Radiohead fans are 73%
more irrational - survey  And 99% of downloaders lie to
pollsters?  By Andrew Orlowski  Posted in Media, 6th November
2007 11:05 GMT  Radiohead last month let punters "set the price"
for the digital download of their new album It's Raining In
Rainbows, which is coming out on CD shortly. Since people could
download it for free - how much did they really pay?  Estimates
to date have relied on self-selecting opinion poll data. This
one, ComScore reminds us, is very different (see Update, below).
(Just as people lie to opinion pollsters about tax to make
themselves appear more virtuous - they'll tell pollsters they're
happy to pay more tax, but then vote otherwise - people lie to
opinion pollsters about their voluntary contributions for
digital music.)  ComCore based its survey on software monitoring
user's behaviour (with their consent) - making it much more
accurate than earlier polls.  In this survey, almost two-thirds
of downloaders paid nothing f