Comments on: New p2p file sharing stats

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:54:10 +0000

Thanks a lot - much appreciated.

On the T-shirts, I’m definitely going to do that. Right now, though, I’m a bit pre-occupied with a couple of other developments which are going to make a big difference to p2pnet.

What this space. heh

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:31:16 +0000

Keep up the good work Jon, You need your own cable program like real time with bill marr (although he is in the industies pocket so that’s a horrible analogy)… I wish you would do a column on who we should and should not vote for in terms of file sharing in the US. I know people would flame that statement and say that it’s stupid to base your political decisions on file sharing, but when you look at the scum like Hatch, you really wish there was a list for anyone to referance all the way up to the president. Anyone who’s in bed with these criminal mafias cannot be helpful in our government. I used to be a democrat until I found out that Clinton was behind the DMCA and I won’t even start on Hillary. I bet young people would vote if they knew it would help us to distroy all the **AA’s that keep distroying our freedom. Just remember Jon, what the US does, Canada will soon follow. I called a lawyer about moving my company to Canada and he told me it wouldn’t be much of a shield against RIAA pursuit of filesharing companies. Any personal advise on or history of filesharing companies in Canada would be a great article as well. Anyway, keep up the good work. I read nearly everyday, and I always catch up on anything I missed. Great stuff. Ohh, and sell T-Shirts man, I’d buy one.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:05:43 +0000

That’s something we’ve been asking since Day One - How does a download equal a lost sale? And it’s one of those questions the RIAA, et al, never seem to find time to answer.

In the meanwhile, —it would take 5,000 downloads to reduce the sales of an album by one copy—

http://p2pnet.net/story/1171

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:14:43 +0000

I still cant understand one thing when they mention that each song that is downloaded is a lost sale.
If you think about it, even with simple logic, (and no reasearch and stats are needed). Songs are sold, on cds with 12 - 20 tracks on each cd. So how can if someone download 1 track named a that he likes from CDnamed XYZ, I cant see the connection how can 1 track, loose the sale of 1 cd, i.e. A lost sale as the RIAA claims.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:13:56 +0000

Except they can’t deduct anything: it is already the balance.
It’s not like they’re giving off money to p2p sharers.
Although they actually could and still make a profit.

Simple unadulterated greed.

They’re making money hand over fist and they have to face
the fact that far from harming the market p2p boost it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 06:01:51 +0000

“Bertelsman announced that the fourth quarter 2003 and the first quarter 2004 have been BMG’s most successful quarters ever.”

But that was before they had to make deductions for all the losses caused by the SOB file sharers and their kids.

Morg