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."

Comments

Re:But, the underlying premise is wrong.

[turnstyle]

"Although this seems to be perfectly acceptable to a large number of folks over 30"

"Time to grow up and realize..."

Well, assuming that this then puts you in the 'under 30' camp, it's *you* that'll be doing the growing up -- and can then reevaluate attitudes like: "I don't give a shit which choice you make *so long as you get out of the way*."

And if I shoplifted 3 CDs from a store ...

[I'm Don Giovanni]

it wouldn't have any significant affect on the income of the distributers or artists either. So, is my act of shoplifting excusable?