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."

Comments

Hasn't this consistently been the message?

[kokaubeam]

It seems like every time an unbiased study is conducted, it has consistently suggested that P2P not only doesn't harm CD sales but at times has even helped the overall sale of CDs. I have only heard the opposite from the recording industry and the media outlets that get their data from them.