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File Sharing Increases CD Sales
Andrew writes "ARIA have released figures that show for 2003, album sales have reached an all time high. In fact, according to Peter Martin, who recently went on Australian radio, before file sharing and CD burning they were selling 10 million less. Total unit sales were also at an all time high at 65.6 million. CD single sales declined 1.9 million over the year, but as Peter said file downloading is doing a better job. Should help Kazaa's legal problems."
Maybe the quality of music got better!
But I'm not going to play with the facts to try to claim that my downloading activities actually help the recording industry
I am.
Surely those copy-protection pseudo-CDs work in more CD players than any of the vinyl records you've bought?
I mainly listen to game soundtracks (I particularly like Half Life's track 11), which probably counts as me buying the music. I downloaded the UT2004 demo, and I've got the music from that in my playlist. So yeah, I guess that makes filesharing a good thing - it makes me buy more game music!
True, economies have been reasonble this year, and the Australian economy in particular has been very strong for a number of years (remember, ARIA is the Australian Recording Industry Association). We've all got bags full of cash we use as toilet paper, and I personally use one million dollar bills to snort caviar.
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.
maybe the explanation is as simple as that: artists creating better music
Come now. no need to be silly.
Perhaps the answer to the problem of teenagers dropping bricks from motorway and railway bridges is to sue Tetris.
Hey, how come the Aussies get the cool names for the gov't agencies? ARIA, music (as in opera), get it? Both the American and Australian versions are the Recording Industry Associaciation of , but noooOOOoo, we (Americans) had to go for the non-humorous name...
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
Uhhh, dude, he already lost all credibility when he wrote...
Richer! More comfortable! Fidelity be damned, I too want music with padded cushions!
Though deep-frozen vinyl, coloured with a green pen, and connected to your valve amplifier by oxygen-free platinum ribbon cables... now that's a sound that can't be beat!
100 *hiss* stupid audiophiles *crackle* on the wall, 100 *pop* stupid audiophiles. Take one down *hiss*, shoot him in the he... *click screeech* 100 *hiss* stupid audiophiles *crackle* on the wall, 100 *pop* stupid audiophiles. Take one down *hiss*, shoot him in the he... *click screeech* 100 *hiss* stupid audiophiles... [ad infinitum]
When the economy is good, fileswapping increases the sale of CDs.
When the economy is bad, fileswapping decreases the sale of CDs.
Of course, you could substitute "herding unicorns" for "fileswapping" in the two sentences above and still arrive at the same conclusion.
CD returns have tripled ;)
But read the last paragraph. Clearly this file sharing thing is killing cassette sales!