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Can you say, obvious to everyone 6 years ago? This is enough to challenge those ridiculous RIAA suits, of which over 500 more were filed on Tuesday according to Reuters and the AP. In all honesty, do you think people hungry to steal the latest song by Britney Spears that's played 5 billion times on the radio are REALLY the ones looking for music online. It's the people who are DISAFFECTED by the homogeniety of Top 40 radio looking for alternatives that have made services like iTunes and the iPod the latest hi-tech doohickeys worth having.
Consumption of music increases dramatically with the introduction of file sharing, but not everybody who likes to listen to music was a music customer before, so it's very important to separate the two," said Felix Oberholzer-Gee, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and one of the authors of the study.
Oberholzer-Gee and his colleague, University of North Carolina's Koleman Strumpf, also said that their "most pessimistic" statistical model showed that illegal file sharing would have accounted for only 2 million fewer compact discs sales in 2002, whereas CD sales declined by 139 million units between 2000 and 2002.
Most pessimistic there kids. Let's realize that's 2 million for the entire year of all music. How many times platinum did Linkin Park go between late 2002 and now? 2 million being generous is fucking nothing compared to the numbers RIAA was tossing around.
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Songs that were heavily downloaded showed no measurable drop in sales, the researchers found after tracking sales of 680 albums over the course of 17 weeks in the second half of 2002. Matching that data with activity on the OpenNap file-sharing network, 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.
I've bought albums by artists I would NEVER have heard of otherwise back when I using Napster back in the day. Since then, not so much. Although I'm always grabbing mp3s from enlightened labels like Sub Pop and Epitaph that realize, hey give em a taste and they'll want more. Hell, even Warner/Reprise caught onto that fact and stream whole albums in flash.
Meanwhile, RIAA and their gaggle of disaffected mouseketeers still say MP3S = BAAAD!
Whatever. In the meantime, I'll be listening to Death Cab for Cutie -- ha ha ho!
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