P2P has no effect on music sales
Mikey 2 comments
A recent study into the affects of illegal music downloads has confirmed what we already suspected. According to Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf (study in the Journal of Political Economy) illegal music downloads have no noticeable affects on music sales, despite what the RIAA tells us.
Links:
- EMI in talks to dump copy protection
- Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"
- Steve Jobs Asks Record Labels To Abolish DRM
Update:
Petly
Thursday 15th February 2007 | 10:09 AMIs Gigatribe a torrent based client?
Janice Wong
Wednesday 14th February 2007 | 01:43 AMI download a lot of albums, but I still buy a lot of CDs as well, I just buy the good ones now!
I use P2P as well to share with friends, thing is, I use an encrypted solution, GigaTribe ( http://www.gigatribe.com ), that keeps my downloads/uploads hidden from my ISP (and the RIAA)! And I think that once others start exploring such free encrypted solutions, the RIAA will have to focus its efforts on other issues, such as improving the music that labels are releasing...enough top-40 R&B garbage already!!