Michael Geist, a Canadian law professor, has released a two-part study on the financial impact of peer-to-peer music
downloading on the Canadian music industry and on the artists. Part one
demonstrated that recording industry loss claims
are greatly exaggerated and that the P2P is only marginally responsible
for sales declines with the focus on CRIA's own numbers and many
alternate factors behind the moderate sales decline. Part two concludes
that Canadian artists have not suffered financially, noting that lost
royalties from diminished sales have been more than offset by the
collection of nearly $120 million in private copying levies
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Michael Geist, a Canadian law professor, has released a two-part study on the financial impact of peer-to-peer music
downloading on the Canadian music industry and on the artists. Part one demonstrated that recording industry loss claims
are greatly exaggerated and that the P2P is only marginally responsible for sales declines with the focus on CRIA's own numbers and many alternate factors behind the moderate sales decline. Part two concludes that Canadian artists have not suffered financially, noting that lost royalties from diminished sales have been more than offset by the collection of nearly $120 million in private copying levies [registration required - use use jimbo@mailinator.com/password to login].