The File Sharing Report

Posted by michael on Saturday September 18, 2004 @09:09AM 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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Business models demanded by today's consumer by v2 · 2004-09-18 09:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

file sharing is a result of the industry's failure to meet the business models demanded by today's consumer

Yeah, that missing business model is "make things and give them to consumers for free".

I know that there are a lot of people that buy the stuff after downloading if they like it, but I really don't think that's most people. And from the people who buy stuff based on p2p "testing", not many actually delete those albums/movies/software which they decide not to buy.