RIAA vs The Economy

thumbtack writes "Boycott-RIAA.com is running an analysis of the RIAA sales vs a number of other large corporations. It was compiled by Justin Moore at Duke University. It is really quite interesting, showing the the RIAA sales are pretty much consistent with the rest of the economy. From the analysis: I would assert, however that it does make the case in cold, hard numbers that the RIAA's claim of digital piracy ravaging their sales must be taken with a rather large grain of salt. The CEOs of Eastman-Kodak are in a nearly identical economic situation as the RIAA, yet do not have the luxury of blaming digital piracy."

Comments

It starts with you.

[unicron]

Go to the Boycott-the-RIAA website? Sounds like a lot of work and reading and such. Can't I just pull a few gigs of mp3's and that'll count as my part to fight them?

Re:It starts with you.

[unicron]

Socialist Eurocunt? I saw them open up for Underworld once, they fucking rock.

Re:It starts with you.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I've got a couple Eminem MP3s here, I've been duplicating them over and over. I figure I've got 200 copies on my HD right now. That'll show 'em.

I'm gonna burn each one onto a CDR 10-15 times, I figure he'll be broke by the time I run out of blanks.

They just blame Digital Photography.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, Eastman-Kodak blames Digital Photography instead.

But - but -

[Dark Paladin]

Does this mean that the RIAA might be exaggerating other things? I mean, I know that every CD-ROM sale is used to pirate music, and that nobody uses them to back up documents/data/desktops/send information that's too big for a floppy or email.

Or that people are downloading 1,000,000 songs a week illegally over their T3 Internet connections and getting the full version of the albums after connecting for 60 hours a week and not going to job/school.

I mean, if you can't trust the RIAA, then who can you trust?

Re:So...

[SweetAndSourJesus]

News from a totally unbiased source

Re:Statistics

[eat potato]

87% of all statistics are made up

You fool!

93% of all statistics are made up!

Sue Reality TV

[WickedClean]

Maybe the RIAA should sue the people who make shows like American Idol! People are at home watching people sing when they should be out buying records. What if people are using their evil VCR to record American Idol? HOW DARE THEY! That is piracy! They must burn.

P2P is killing Dupont

[Anonymous Coward]

If I'm reading these numbers correctly, Dupont is getting hammered even worse than the RIAA by these p2p pirates. I didn't realize the sharing isos chocked full of chemical recipes was so rampant. You bastards.

Isn't it obvious?

[darkov]

The economy dipped becuase of the the overwhelming piracy. That's how bad it gotten. Next will come pestilence, famine, floods and your chickens will stop laying. We must stop priacy now to save the world.

In Other News..

[OutRigged]

In a move totally unrelated to the story above, the RIAA has filed a lawsuit against Duke University student Justin Moore, demanding $427 Billion USD, or 50 cents for every song he has shared on the underground hacker network known as 'Kazaa'.

Re:Piracy sometimes HELPS economic development

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you perhaps confusing expedience with moral rectitude?

Oh No!

[coene]

"The CEOs of Eastman-Kodak are in a nearly identical economic situation as the RIAA, yet do not have the luxury of blaming digital piracy."

Just Announced: Online Photo Sharing Prevalent, Photo Lab Revenue Down, Kodak Blames Kazaa!

Proof!

[MongoMike]

Finally, proof that illegal file trading is the cause of America's weak economy! This report shows that RIAA isn't the only one affected by this plague.

Wouldn't really be surprised if RIAA eventually sports this argument. :)