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RIAA vs The Economy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ineffables-always-win dept.

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."

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  1. They just blame Digital Photography. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Eastman-Kodak blames Digital Photography instead.

  2. But - but - by Dark+Paladin · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  3. Re:It starts with you. by unicron · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Re:It starts with you. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Isn't it obvious? by darkov · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Proof! by MongoMike · · Score: 5, Funny
    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. :)