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The RIAA needs to stop telling lies and formulate a new plan of action on how to make money off music. If people like the music they’ll buy it and even if they don’t if they like the band they’ll go to the concerts. That’s money in the record label’s pockets right there. It’s time for them to find something else to whine about. I’m all for boycotting the RIAA and supporting independant labels and artists.
Simple. With one goverment study we can debunk the lie created by the music industry about “pirates” and their supposedly spin over losses.
* When assessing the P2P downloading population, there was “a strong positive relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file sharing increases CD purchases.” The study estimates that one additional P2P download per month increases music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.
* When viewed in the aggreggate (ie. the entire Canadian population), there is no direct relationship between P2P file sharing and CD purchases in Canada. According to the study authors, “the analysis of the entire Canadian population does not uncover either a positive or negative relationship between the number of files downloaded from P2P networks and CDs purchased. That is, we find no direct evidence to suggest that the net effect of P2P file sharing on CD purchasing is either positive or negative for Canada as a whole.
Thanks to Boing Boing.
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