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 Posted: Mar 29, 2004 8:49pm Post subject: |
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| al5001 wrote: | | However, where they normally would make $50, 000, 000, now they probably make $49, 000, 000 due to less people buying the music, leaving the $1, 000, 000 in the hands of potential buyers whom happen to have downloaded the files for free. |
The point is, you don't know if they actually lost anything. There is no way to tell, and anyone who claims any figures are pulling it out of their proverbial ass. |
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al5001
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| Posted: Mar 29, 2004 9:32pm Post subject: |
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By the way, that was state law, by no means federal -- As well, I am from Canada, not USA.
Due to misleading opinions about whether to give copyright infringers a decade in jail rather than giving them a reasonable penalty, combined with peoples' inability to talk in third or second person without including names when attacking points of view, I have decided to stop reading and posting to this topic. |
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| Posted: Mar 30, 2004 12:28pm Post subject: |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040330/tc_washpost/a34300_2004mar29
| Quote: | Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line.
"From a statistical point of view, what this means is that there is no effect between downloading and sales," said Oberholzer-Gee. |
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DeadWrong
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| Posted: Mar 30, 2004 12:32pm Post subject: |
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yeah, I was about to post about that too.
What it means is, while there is a lot of filesharing going on, their research shows that the majority of those who download any given song, very few would have likely ever paid for it to begin with.
On the other hand, the RIAA would have you think that every download is a lost sale, thus they're "losing" billions that never existed.
Put it in perspective: If you sell a product for $10, you can expect N number of people to buy it. If you then gave it out for free, you can expect a much larger number to get the free sample, but you would be ignorant to assume that because 9 million people took a free sample that you would have ever sold 9 million of that item. |
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DeadWrong
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| Posted: Mar 30, 2004 12:34pm Post subject: |
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Before someone starts to assume I'm pro-piracy, I want to say that I am dead set against piracy.
But being anti-piracy does not equate to being pro RIAA. |
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| Posted: Mar 30, 2004 12:42pm Post subject: |
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| they concluded that file sharing actually increases CD sales for hot albums that sell more than 600,000 copies. For every 150 downloads of a song from those albums, sales increase by a copy, the researchers found. |
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azhrei
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| Posted: Apr 18, 2004 4:35am Post subject: article requested |
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Hey does anyone have that article that they could forward through to me? The link is out of date...
nwnseeker
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uchat
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| Posted: Apr 18, 2004 7:42am Post subject: |
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they concluded that file sharing actually increases CD sales for hot albums that sell more than 600,000 copies. For every 150 downloads of a song from those albums, sales increase by a copy, the researchers found.
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It's still illegal.
Steroids enhance sports performance too. Still illegal. |
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