Music Industry P2P Claims Dismantled

Canarock writes "First Monday runs a great article this month from Canadian law professor Michael Geist that dismantles the recording industry's claims about the peer-to-peer. Using actual data from Canada, Piercing the P2P Myths, demonstrates that the loss claims are greatly exaggerated and that P2P has had little, if any impact on the income of the artists themselves." From the article: "The Canadian government has been the target of intense lobbying for stronger copyright legislation in recent months. Led by the music industry, which claims that it has experienced significant financial losses due to music downloading, the campaign culminated in November 2004 with a lobby day on Parliament Hill."

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Re:Article Text.....

[Landak]

Damnit, I never could remember to change the formatting option......

Re:Let me get this straight

[Sj0]

1. Nobody said that every OSS project would be successful, and if they were, OSS wouldn't work.

2. Just because some people are doing it for the money doesn't mean most are. My field is completely unrelated to computers, for example, and I don't expect (or want) a penny for the stuff I've released.