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Study: MP3 Sharing Not Serious Threat To CD Sales
pkaral writes "The two distinguished gentlemen Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee have most likely made RIAA executives choke on their lunches. Those two economists at Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill have done the research and the math on how much CD sales are actually hurt by P2P sharing. The answer: A whopping one CD per 5,000 files downloaded. Needless to say, RIAA are already trying to discredit the study."
RIAA: File sharing hurts our beloved industry.
Student A: Have you heard that new song from ? It's awesome!!!!
Student B: Yeah I'm going to see them next week in LA!! Road Trip!!!
Student C: I'm going to buy that album they put out last year.
Student D: Me too!
Student A: Yeah it was largely underrated, I guess.
Harvard Prof Guy: Consumption of music increases dramatically with the introduction of file sharing...
RIAA: Harvard SUCKS!
two distinguished gentlemen Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee have most likely made RIAA executives choke on their lunches
Thats all you have to do to be distinguished around here...
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
RIAA:
Obviously, these "economists" are just a bunch of nerds with too much time on their hands. What kind of degree does it take to teach at Harvard? A PhD? Like that means anything. Our marketing guy has a Masters. These professors don't even have any platinum records.
...A study by Sharman Networks shows that CD sales are hurting file downloads on their popular file sharing network Kazaa, and have been for some time. Sharman Networks proposes a tax on every CD sold to accomodate for these losses...
Yes, but how many did you avoid buying, because after listening to it realized it sucked? Without p2p, you'd be stuck having to buy the CD first to find out if it sucks. Hence, more money for the RIAA.
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What?
Two economists != two laywers though both tend to have their heads an equal distance up their ___
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Sky often described as 'blue'
RIAA,MPAA and SCO still suffer from delusions of sustainable profit via litigation
'Open Source Software' community remains fragmented Microsoft called 'evil' by some
Apple hardware percieved as 'expensive'
Intel based hardware discoved to fast, moderately reliable, and disposable.
okay enough stoopid jokes
foreach ($monopoly_action as $headline)I personally have bought more CD's because I discovered a band I had never heard of via mp3 download.
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Just as irrigation is the lifeblood of the Southwest, lifeblood is the soup of cannibals. -- Jack Handy
1 CD per 5,000 files.
That should show the RIAA how hard it is to find decent music these days.
Quality. Not quantity.
It is not piracy. Piracy involves boarding and stealing ships in the sea with the casual murder of people.
It's called copyright infringement. Escape the common (publicity induced and totally unfair) misconceptions...
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I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
Right. Until, that is, someone figures out a way
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to remove those banner ads, leaving a clean near
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DVD-quality version for everyone to download.
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Then the industry will cry fowl saying it hurts
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they're profits, even though the advertising
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companies have already paid them. Then they'll
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start creating all these DRM schemes to try and
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prevent that from happening, which will only be
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a smokescreen as they use it's failure to press
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for laws outlawing all media being downloaded
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from "unauthorized distribution points." At that
point, if they succeed, they will effective control
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all media on the net, because it is illegal to host
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and upload any media files to anyone whatsoever, unless
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you pay a licencing fee. Same story that's been going
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on in one form or another for decades...
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Wow, your logic is mindboggling.
If you read the grandparents post three times a day for the next month you'll see that it is true.
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The other 4990 files were all horse pr0n. Damn Kazaa!
It is not piracy. Piracy involves boarding and stealing ships in the sea with the casual murder of people.
It's called copyright infringement. Escape the common (publicity induced and totally unfair) misconceptions...
It's called a "metaphor."
When the natives complain about the white man raping their land, the white man didn't actually rape the land. It's a metaphor.
When they say that Kazaa is the bastard son of Napster, they don't mean that Napster, as a company, somehow copulated with another company, producing an offspring company, then denied ever having sex with the first company at all. It's a metaphor.
When you burn a CD, there is no flame involved. It's a metaphor.
When you surf the web, there is no actual surfing involved. It's a metaphor.
When you pirate music/software, you are not actually running around with a parrot, an eyepatch, and a pegleg, boarding ships and stealing software. It's a metaphor.
Think outside the box a little, instead of blindly latching on to the watered-down, pre-approved things that you're allowed to rebel against.
(Note that I'm not implying there there is an actual box involved, that you're actually blind, that there are any latches involved, or that anyone has actually sprayed water onto anything).
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Then the industry will cry fowl...
Let's leave the ducks out of this, shall we?