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Yet Another Look at CD Sales
citizenkeller writes "Dan Bricklin, of VisiCalc fame, has published a very interesting essay on "CD sales, downloading, and burning". In his own words: 'Given the slight dip in CD sales despite so many reasons for there to be a much larger drop, it seems that the effect of downloading, burning, and sharing is one of the few bright lights helping the music industry with their most loyal customers. Perhaps the real reason for some of the drop in sales was the shutdown of Napster and other crackdowns by the music industry.'"
The entertainment industry is trying to turn Peer-to-Peer into a bad name. This is wrong. Fax machines are Peer-to-Peer. Telephones are Peer-to-Peer. Email is Peer-to-Peer. Cell phones are Peer-to-Peer.
You catching your "Peeping Tom" neighborhood kid look as you are changing clothes is a Peer-to-Peer.
...trying to explain to my gf why I wasn't going to buy her a RIAA produced CD. Her eyes have an impressive range of motion.
I used to buy 3+ CD's a month until the RIAA decided to turn into a Totailatrian agency that started erroding my rights by having junk leglislation installed in bills that have nothing to do with entertainment, etc.
The RIAA is now completely out of control (MPAA, also). Intel plans on installing digital rights software (Palladium) next year!
Ladies and gentleman, prepared to bend over next year and let the RIAA/MPAA shove its 100 pound dick up your ass.
Oh come on, there's huge differences between Britney Aguilera and Christina Spears! They sound nothing alike.
To paraphrase...
...and then complain that Napster is stealing."
"The music industry charges $18 dollars for a CD...
So true....Maybe if the RIAA would stop listening to themselves talk and actually look at some of these reports, they might change their mind...wait...sorry, I was having a case of wishful thinking.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion