File-sharing sells music

New research from Ipsos-Reid suggests that that music file sharing actually helps boost CD sales and reinforces the notion that the music cartel's refusal to accept the Napsters of the world as anything but pirates will only hurt them in the end. Sure cartels work to protect the status quo and fear technologically inspired-innovation, but the music industry's lame attempts to do it themselves with MusicNet and Pressplay are only wasting their time and delaying a business opportunity. Wired News reports.