The same goes for the record-companies; It is under my impression that they just assume / blame that p2p is the cause of falling sales in other parts of the world. Noone can know this without an real statistical analysis.
I believe there is another very possible reason for declining sales - crapier music..
Howevere - what would be really intresting to know is how the independent artist and/or labels are affected by the p2p filesharing. I believe p2p filesharing of music helps people discover new and different music - which, more often than not, come from independent artists/labels.
In my case I have realized how much crap most hollywood movies are, and how bad most songs played on the radio is. - which has resulted in me bying more music and movies from idependent music/movie artists/companies and less from the big RIAA/MPAA companies.
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But it should be illegal for them to produce AIDS medicine?
IP laws suck.
The same goes for the record-companies; It is under my impression that they just assume / blame that p2p is the cause of falling sales in other parts of the world. Noone can know this without an real statistical analysis.
I believe there is another very possible reason for declining sales - crapier music..
Howevere - what would be really intresting to know is how the independent artist and/or labels are affected by the p2p filesharing. I believe p2p filesharing of music helps people discover new and different music - which, more often than not, come from independent artists/labels.
In my case I have realized how much crap most hollywood movies are, and how bad most songs played on the radio is. - which has resulted in me bying more music and movies from idependent music/movie artists/companies and less from the big RIAA/MPAA companies.