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The File Sharing Report

Posted by michael on from the same-old-song-and-dance dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In July, Slashdot posted an article about the file sharing experiment, which was a database where users could report items they've purchased as a result of file sharing. The author has completed the experiment and written a report outlining the results. He offers the philosophy that file sharing is a result of the industry's failure to meet the business models demanded by today's consumer, and provides many suggestions to the various industries on how to take advantage of the market emerging from file sharing to generate revenue."

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  1. Files they've just taken and not bought or deleted by jakek101 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about all of the files that these people continue to listen to, but don't delete or buy legit copies of? How much of their music do they actually own? My friends like to tell me that they wouldn't have bought the CD anyway, so downloading it doesn't hurt anybody. This may be true in some cases, but I think most of the time people just decide that they wouldn't have bought it post download.

  2. Re:Files they've just taken and not bought or dele by Randy+Wang · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But how are you supposed to make an educated decision without downloading it? ;-)

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