Research from the European Commission has found a negligable but "positive link" between online piracy and visits to legal music stores, and concludes that piracy "should not be seen as a growing concern" for digital business.

It also, however, says that the findings do not contradict previous reports showing physical sales displacement.

The research, based on a 16,000-person European sample from the The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, has suggested that piracy doesn’t hurt digital music revenues.

The data ...