What Various Studies Really Reveal About File-Sharing

Dangerous_Minds writes "Drew Wilson of ZeroPaid has an interesting look at file-sharing. It all started with a review of a Phoenix study that was used to promote SOPA. Wilson says that the study was long on wild claims and short on fact. While most writers would simply criticize the study and move on, Wilson took it a step further and looked in to what file-sharing studies have really been saying throughout the years. What he found was an impressive 19 of 20 studies not getting any coverage. He launched a large series detailing what these studies have to say on file-sharing. The first study suggests that file-sharing litigation was a failure. The second study said that p2p has no effect on music sales. The third study found that the RIAA suppresses innovation. The fourth study says that the MPAA has simply been trying to preserve its oligopoly. The fifth study says that even when one uses the methodology of one download means one lost sale, the losses amount to less than $2 per album. The studies, so far, are being posted on a daily basis and are certainly worth the read."

Comments

Re:Low standards

[kamapuaa]

True Scotsman Fallacy? I prefer to think of it as the "pretending your point is proved by an economics paper published in some shitty journal without peer review or any sort of influence" fallacy.

Re:P2P had no effect on music sales?

[adolf]

I parse what you write as "I really don't like to listen to music, so I don't care about any of this."