Take That, RIAA!
From CNET News:
A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. For the study, released [March 29, 2004], researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina tracked music downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, matching data on file transfers with actual market performance of the songs and albums being downloaded. Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote.This is a little old, but it just goes to prove what I've been saying all along. I've bought more far more CDs in the last few years than I would have if I didn't have the ability to download the CD, listen to it, and then either delete the MP3s or buy the CD.
posted by Cyraxote at 6:20 PM
1 Comments:
I think I'd be far more outraged by people stealing "art" (when the issue is stripped down, that really is what "file-sharing" is) if the artists themselves were making the stink about file-sharing.
If record companies are soooo concerned about the well-being of their artists, perhaps the record companies should take a closer look at their practices, before going after 12-year-olds downloading Blink 182.
Many of these artists are raped by record companies, making almost nothing from CD sales.
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