Comments on: More Big Music BS in Canada http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:49:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23192 Reader's Write Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:18:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23192 Harvard Business School Study shows File Sharing has NO Effect on Record Sales. This study was done in 2004. How can anyone argue with Harvard Students? Here is the whole study: http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf What methods does Statscan use to determine the cause of declining profits for Recording companies I wonder. Who actually paid for Statscan's study? Harvard Business School Study shows File Sharing has NO Effect on Record Sales.
This study was done in 2004.
How can anyone argue with Harvard Students?

Here is the whole study:
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf

What methods does Statscan use to determine the cause of declining profits for Recording companies I wonder.

Who actually paid for Statscan’s study?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23082 Reader's Write Sat, 29 Oct 2005 04:53:46 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23082 I have a feeling that file sharing is the least of the industry's problems; they just don't know it yet. Take me for instance; I don't file share at all. Nada. To me it's just not worth the risks. They say your chances of winding up on the wrong end of the RIAA's or CRIA's legal guns are about the same as winning the lottery - but people DO win the lottery (not me unfortunately, but that's another story). And I definitely don't need another virus on my computer; it took me three weeks to get rid of one one time. I like to read the news here just to stay abreast of all of today's DRM hardware issues. (For instance,I was going to buy a new TV until I read about the upcoming move to HD TV broadcasts. Now I will wait and see how all that pans out.) But there's so much free and legal promo music around on the net that I don't have to do anything controversial or illegal to get new music. And what I find is that I keep moving further and further away from the music the record companys are putting out. I can listen to ANY genre I want ANYTIME I want ANYWHERE I want. I am no longer restricted to listening to the local radio, or my cable company, or any given store's stocks that are DRM laden and commercially and community standards "approved" (Remember when stocking 2 Live Crew was a big deal ?). I find that I like a lot of the new, legal and free music. I like a lot more of it and I like it a lot more than I do the commercial "product". I don't see myself ever going back to the marketing "strait jacket" of old. And this trend seems to be growing. Also, another article mentioned an artist (Jully Black) who had only sold 15,000 records but had seen millions of requests for downloads. I do have a lot of sympathy for her, but there is also this: if she had sold those same albums online in a lossless, non-DRM format for five bucks a download, she (and her band) would have made $75,000 by now. I wonder if she got this much by (if I understood the article correctly) going through the record company for sales. I have a feeling that file sharing is the least of the industry’s problems; they just don’t know it yet. Take me for instance; I don’t file share at all. Nada. To me it’s just not worth the risks. They say your chances of winding up on the wrong end of the RIAA’s or CRIA’s legal guns are about the same as winning the lottery - but people DO win the lottery (not me unfortunately, but that’s another story). And I definitely don’t need another virus on my computer; it took me three weeks to get rid of one one time. I like to read the news here just to stay abreast of all of today’s DRM hardware issues. (For instance,I was going to buy a new TV until I read about the upcoming move to HD TV broadcasts. Now I will wait and see how all that pans out.)

But there’s so much free and legal promo music around on the net that I don’t have to do anything controversial or illegal to get new music. And what I find is that I keep moving further and further away from the music the record companys are putting out. I can listen to ANY genre I want ANYTIME I want ANYWHERE I want. I am no longer restricted to listening to the local radio, or my cable company, or any given store’s stocks that are DRM laden and commercially and community standards “approved” (Remember when stocking 2 Live Crew was a big deal ?). I find that I like a lot of the new, legal and free music. I like a lot more of it and I like it a lot more than I do the commercial “product”. I don’t see myself ever going back to the marketing “strait jacket” of old. And this trend seems to be growing.

Also, another article mentioned an artist (Jully Black) who had only sold 15,000 records but had seen millions of requests for downloads. I do have a lot of sympathy for her, but there is also this: if she had sold those same albums online in a lossless, non-DRM format for five bucks a download, she (and her band) would have made $75,000 by now. I wonder if she got this much by (if I understood the article correctly) going through the record company for sales.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23069 Reader's Write Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:03:52 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6775#comment-23069 Yeah, those corporate defenders of Canadian culture. Where would we be without their charitable lobbying and selfless agendas? Thank goddness we've got dumbed down politicians to buy their songs and keep our culture in tune. Yeah, those corporate defenders of Canadian culture. Where would we be without their charitable lobbying and selfless agendas? Thank goddness we’ve got dumbed down politicians to buy their songs and keep our culture in tune.

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