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Sharing Increases Music Purchases?
darnellmc writes "See this News.com article which cites a study that shows file swapping increases music purchases. I guess it all depends on who is paid to do the study and how they carry it out, but this report would counter the study performed by an RIAA backed group, which noted that file swapping lowered music purchases. You would have to be one cheap individual to want to download all the music in your life for free and this study proves that. Because most people are obviously using file sharing to find new music to purchase. A concept the RIAA can not comprehend. If future major music releases are copy protected, it will be interesting how the RIAA will respond if they sell less." Well, if they sell less, it will be due to pirates, of course. A few weeks ago we mentioned Wilco, who released their album on their website for free. The strategy appears to have paid off.
Ok,
I've been looking for reason to stop reading slashdot and finally this is it!
Firstly, this garbage had been modded up whereas the original posting that provoked the response remains at zero. Hello!!??
Secondly, I believe that YOU are the one who has completely missed the point of the original post and most certainly have no understanding of the music industry beyond the typical slashdot "oh aren't the record companies screwing us" viewpoint.
Finally, what's the point of a guild if no one knows it exists? RTFOM! How do we get a "public market" of our own? Answer that question and slashdot's honor may be saved.
As for sites surviving being slashdotted, again you have absolutely no knowledge of what a 2 day downtime for a small music site dependent on income from that site would do.
Stop being such a big headed know all and get some facts into that thick skull before spewing shite.
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