Comments on: File sharing: zero effect on downloads

By: Jgarofalo

Jgarofalo — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:29:37 +0000

Hi guys, I tried to download the .pdf of the 2007 work but it was not there, so I find the autors website, you can download it from there, here is the link:

http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/

and the .pdf you referred as (2007) is from 12-12-2006
here is that link, too:
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/JPE%2031618%20FileSharing%202006-12-12.pdf

I hope everybody can read it, regards.

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Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:29:12 +0000

[…] Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG say files shared equal sales lost, but this claim has again been proven to be disingenuous in an authoritative paper from two American researchers in The Effect of File Sharing on Record […]

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:44:00 +0000

“Some OTHER reasons to make it go away, methinks”

No, douchebag, you DON’T “thinks”, or you wouldn’t automatically leap to that conclusion. Validation boxes are fucking worthless by definition, primarily because they damage the ability for those who can’t SEE the fuckin’ things, to post on forums and blogs. Visually-impaired persons (and the blind), have been saying that for years.
IF you’re going to include a “validation box”, you need to also put in some sort of audio version, so that those who can’t see the fuckin’ thing can still post here.

Somebody oughta kick you in the face twenty or thirty times, you fuckin’ douchebag.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:27:53 +0000

Someone who wants the validation box to go away so badly just may have some OTHER reason to make it go away , methinks.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:23:53 +0000

Sorry, but I think that is BULLSHIT! The validation box is NOT NEEDED and only makes posting a pain, period!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:57:35 +0000

That validation box is needed. If he does away with it all of his time and some of ours will be spent reading SPAM!!!! If more people used SpammerSkewer,
http://spammerskewer.sourceforge.net , spam necessitating this validation box may become a thing of the past.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:28:44 +0000

Not surprised here with the results of the study.
We knew all along that sales of recorded music rose when massive sharing started, fiert though blank cassettes and then blank cds

What I would really like to see is a scientific study (to my knowledges and incredibly, never done) to prove or disprove that music copyrights actually benefit the people (fisrt) and then the creators, or is it only for the benefit of copyright holders, such a publishers and record companies) who scam the creators.

The bet is on tha copyrights only hurt the people and the creators, who mostly toll in slaverey like condition for the sake of the scammers.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:23:58 +0000

Jon…PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT STUPID VALIDATION BOX! Get rid of it! kr5Xp

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:23:02 +0000

This will not change anything. The cartels will still believe file sharing hurts sales and the people will still share fiules beliving the truth.. that it does not. Nothing changes.