Electronic master musician Moby has made comments regarding the "pearl jam effect", whereby some artists have fans more likely to digitally pirate their music than other artists. Seems logical enough; although it'd be near impossible to measure the effect. Moby's concerns relate mostly to the way the industry rates an artist and their releases - if one million buy and ten million people burn a copy of an album, that would imply the artist is more popular than, say, an artist who sells two million units but doesn't get many copies burnt. Besides that, who wins in the long run? Artist one, who has eleven million fans out there; or artist two, who has two million fans?

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