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#211657 - 31/03/2004 09:04 We knew P2P don't harm CD sales...
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
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... but now there's a study to back that:

From BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow's weblog:
Koleman Strumpf, a conservative, Cato-affiliated economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has just co-authored a paper on the effects of file-sharing on album sales, based on the first-ever empirical data analysis in the field.

[....]

Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale...high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing.

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#211658 - 31/03/2004 09:17 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: bonzi]
wfaulk
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I'm not saying you or the article are wrong, but
a conservative ... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.
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#211659 - 31/03/2004 09:21 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: wfaulk]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
So file sharing has nothing to do with this then
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#211660 - 31/03/2004 09:43 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: boxer]
Dignan
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So file sharing has nothing to do with this then
Are you being sarcastic?

And Bitt, if it makes you fell better I think the study was done in cooperation with Harvard TechTV reported on this last night.


Edited by DiGNAN17 (31/03/2004 09:44)
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#211661 - 31/03/2004 10:44 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: bonzi]
mtempsch
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Registered: 02/06/2000
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Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
Interesting data point from Australia...

/Michael
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#211662 - 31/03/2004 11:14 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: wfaulk]
bonzi
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a conservative ... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

I wouldn't know about that. All I know about US university politics was gathered from sources like The Strawberry Statement or Zabriskie Point, which cannot be accused of being recent, complete, unbiased or generally relevant.
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#211663 - 31/03/2004 13:13 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: bonzi]
wfaulk
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UNC-CH is one of the oldest (and my be the oldest) public (meaning government-funded) college in the US. It's mostly known as a liberal arts school, and it's full of artsy-fartsy types. The idea of a conservative economist there just doesn't jibe with the image of the school. It's not really politics so much as image.
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#211664 - 31/03/2004 13:13 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: boxer]
ninti
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Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
> So file sharing has nothing to do with this then

"[EMI] also said on Wednesday recorded music sales in the year to end-March 2004 held close to the previous year's levels..."

Nope, apparently not.
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#211665 - 01/04/2004 11:50 Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... [Re: wfaulk]
mwest
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Registered: 01/05/2003
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Loc: Ada, Oklahoma
invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

Long live Leon Festinger... I didn't know anyone even knew who he was anymore.
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