Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 17, 2006 @05:31PM from the talking-crazy dept.

CRIAWatch writes "The Canadian Recording Industry Association has quietly issued a new study that contradicts many of its own claims about the impact of P2P usage on the music industry. Michael Geist summarizes the 144 page study by noting that the research 'concludes that P2P downloading constitutes less than one-third of the music on downloaders' computers, that P2P users frequently try music on P2P services before they buy, that the largest P2P downloader demographic is also the largest music buying demographic, and that reduced purchasing has little to do with the availability of music on P2P services.'"

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Those Canadians... by Nice2Cats · 2006-03-17 17:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

...just can't get anything right, can they...sheesh.
Re:Grep. You keep using that tool. by jgoemat · 2006-03-17 23:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

'grep -v eh Report.txt' will give you just lines that don't have 'eh' in them...
Re:If... by FailedTheTuringTest · 2006-03-18 00:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Take off, eh. Hoser.