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

Re:Promotion vs. Sales

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

This man is a genius. Mod parent up. Or give him a company.

Donald Trump, are you reading this?

Why does this matter?

[stubear]

I'd wager that killing a few morons here and there won't have a dire effect on the world we live in, does this make it right? Copyright infringement is illegal and the one thing none of these studies research is the effect on CD sales should downloading become legal and the mainstream way to distribute music freely. Right now you have people rolling the dice, considering the odds of getting caught, because most know what they are doing is wrong and illegal. If you make it legal to share music on P2P networks freely, physical CDs and the added value of cover art, etc. won't matter at all or very little.

My "study" says the Earth is flat. Kneel before me

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

The two distinguished gentlemen Strumpf and Oberholzer-Gee have most likely made RIAA executives choke on their lunches.

When people agree with you they are "distinguished", but when they disagree with you, they are hacks. So, it's not surprising that the Slashdot bunch beam and bubble at the "findings" of these "distinguished" gentlemen, while calling the RAII "hacks". Why? Because the Slashdot crowd does not wish to give up getting music for free while more responsible people go to the store and pay for it as they should.