It's not the first study that claims and practically proves how irrelevant is to say that uncontrolled file sharing'd cripple the music industry.
One of the most relevant studies I have read was in fact issued five years ago already, back in 2002. A former executive of la FNAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNAC), a French competitor to Virgin Megastores, has announced the results of a study based on their sales for the past 20 years. According to this study, it appeared that the French consumer's average budget dedicated to entertainment (in percentage of their income) hadn't significantly changed for almost all this time lapse, independently of inflation. On the other hand, it appeared clearly that the centers of interests (and cash spending) of the brand's customers had drastically spread between the purchase of DVD's, video games, MP3 players, mobile phones, and surprisingly books. Considering that the boom of the CD sales due to the massive purchase in replacement of phonograph records started to be out of breath in the late 90's, coinciding with the birth of the Napster network and premises of online file sharing, here was an undreamed-of scapegoat.
Though similar arguments have been told a countless times, I'd in fact fancy some kind of study that proves the beneficial impact of unlegit music downloading toward shoplifting in record shops. For ages, unemployed teens couldn't afford the money to buy all the music they want right? Stealing a record in a shop *does* cost money to someone, that has nothing to do with the virtual shortfall claimed by the **AA.
Actually this story reminds me of a similar one, that just occured in France about 6 months ago.
During the departure party of a retiring school teacher, a choral of 6 years old kids sang a french song which title would litterally translate to "Goodbye mister professor" (the choice of this song was for obvious reason). No money was ever involved in this case and the only audiance was composed of parents and teachers. Unfortunately since it happened in a very small town, the story was related in a very local newspaper and reached the hear of the music copyright nazies around here, the SACEM. The school was fined a couple of hundred euros for having performed "copyrighted" music in public without authorization.
Ironically, when the very writer and performer of this song heard of this sinister joke he decided that he'd be paying the fine in place of the school...
PS: Appologies if this post ever appears a second time but threaded answers seem to be foobar.
Actually this story reminds me of a similar one, that just occured in France about 6 months ago.
During the departure party of a retiring school teacher, a choral of 6 years old kids sang a french song which title would litterally translate to "Goodbye mister professor" (the choice of this song was for obvious reason). No money was ever involved in this case and the only audiance was composed of parents and teachers. Unfortunately since it happened in a very small town, the story was related in a very local newspaper and reached the hear of the music copyright nazies around here, the SACEM. The school was fined a couple of hundred euros for having performed "copyrighted" music in public without authorization.
Ironically, when the very writer and performer of this song heard of this sinister joke he decided that he'd be paying the fine in place of the school...
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It's not the first study that claims and practically proves how irrelevant is to say that uncontrolled file sharing'd cripple the music industry. One of the most relevant studies I have read was in fact issued five years ago already, back in 2002. A former executive of la FNAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNAC), a French competitor to Virgin Megastores, has announced the results of a study based on their sales for the past 20 years. According to this study, it appeared that the French consumer's average budget dedicated to entertainment (in percentage of their income) hadn't significantly changed for almost all this time lapse, independently of inflation. On the other hand, it appeared clearly that the centers of interests (and cash spending) of the brand's customers had drastically spread between the purchase of DVD's, video games, MP3 players, mobile phones, and surprisingly books. Considering that the boom of the CD sales due to the massive purchase in replacement of phonograph records started to be out of breath in the late 90's, coinciding with the birth of the Napster network and premises of online file sharing, here was an undreamed-of scapegoat. Though similar arguments have been told a countless times, I'd in fact fancy some kind of study that proves the beneficial impact of unlegit music downloading toward shoplifting in record shops. For ages, unemployed teens couldn't afford the money to buy all the music they want right? Stealing a record in a shop *does* cost money to someone, that has nothing to do with the virtual shortfall claimed by the **AA.
Actually this story reminds me of a similar one, that just occured in France about 6 months ago.
During the departure party of a retiring school teacher, a choral of 6 years old kids sang a french song which title would litterally translate to "Goodbye mister professor" (the choice of this song was for obvious reason).
No money was ever involved in this case and the only audiance was composed of parents and teachers. Unfortunately since it happened in a very small town, the story was related in a very local newspaper and reached the hear of the music copyright nazies around here, the SACEM.
The school was fined a couple of hundred euros for having performed "copyrighted" music in public without authorization.
Ironically, when the very writer and performer of this song heard of this sinister joke he decided that he'd be paying the fine in place of the school...
PS: Appologies if this post ever appears a second time but threaded answers seem to be foobar.
Actually this story reminds me of a similar one, that just occured in France about 6 months ago.
During the departure party of a retiring school teacher, a choral of 6 years old kids sang a french song which title would litterally translate to "Goodbye mister professor" (the choice of this song was for obvious reason).
No money was ever involved in this case and the only audiance was composed of parents and teachers. Unfortunately since it happened in a very small town, the story was related in a very local newspaper and reached the hear of the music copyright nazies around here, the SACEM.
The school was fined a couple of hundred euros for having performed "copyrighted" music in public without authorization.
Ironically, when the very writer and performer of this song heard of this sinister joke he decided that he'd be paying the fine in place of the school...