From Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing: French copyright enforcers: “Pirates are big spenders on legit content”. I’m not quite sure what the relevance of this is; people who buy legitimate content tend to (a) be more interested in music and movie downloads than other, and (b) tend to be more technically savvy and have the right equipment (iPods, iPads, Apple TV, etc.) than others. And such people tend to be more able to or prone to pirate than others. So why would this be a surprise or relevant. Why.
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