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Study: MP3 Sharing Not Serious Threat To CD Sales

Posted by timothy on from the problem-with-static-worldviews dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Its still piracy by spudthepotatofreak · · Score: 5, Informative

    It may be piracy, but it's not stealing... it's called infingement, escape the common misconceptions ...