University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians and concluded that that people who download more music actually buy more CDs: “We estimate that the effect of one additional P2P download per month is to increase music purchasing by 0.44 CDs per year.” This translates into: if someone downloads 270 songs a year, he or she will buy 9 CDs more than someone who only downloads 27 songs. Overall the researchers found no difference between pirates and other people in the number of CDs they buy nor did they find a positive or a negative relationship between filesharing and CD sales. Quick, someone send a memo to the RIAA that they’re suing their own customers.
News source: TorrentFreak
News source: TorrentFreak
Funniest thing I've heard in a while.
Taking the example from the article, the person who downloads 270 songs obviously has more interest in music-listening than the person who only downloads 27 thus the former person would buy more CD's than the person who downloads less or has less interest regardless of the number of songs downloaded or if nothing was even available for download. 9 more did they say. It would've easily been 20-30 more CD's had there been 0 songs available for download.
What it does indicate is that music downloading has not completely killed the recording industry, yet. Just ask yourself, if you do download music, how many less CD's have you bought. Please, give me a break! Use some common sense and don't waste resources on stupid surveys that only looks at parts of the picture.
Last edited by coolvi on 03 Nov 2007 - 22:09
me personally, there aint much music worth buying (some but not much as im picky on what i really like vs just somethings thats "not bad" sorta thing) but the stuff i do like, i gotta admit if i had no other way to "get it" i probably would have bought there CD.... but on the flip side of that, it's hard to know for sure if you would like a artists (especially new ones u just heard that you "might like"
bottom line for me i would never pay 15 dollars for a CD unless i like atleast around 3/4th of the CD and only way to know if you like it is usually requires "obtaining it"
Funniest thing I've heard in a while.
Taking the example from the article, the person who downloads 270 songs obviously has more interest in music-listening than the person who only downloads 27 thus the former person would buy more CD's than the person who downloads less or has less interest regardless of the number of songs downloaded or if nothing was even available for download. 9 more did they say. It would've easily been 20-30 more CD's had there been 0 songs available for download.
What it does indicate is that music downloading has not completely killed the recording industry, yet. Just ask yourself, if you do download music, how many less CD's have you bought. Please, give me a break! Use some common sense and don't waste resources on stupid surveys that only looks at parts of the picture.
Hey, yeah, look at the whole picture! Kinda like the RIAA does and claims they've lost billions of dollars in CD sales (one CD downloaded IS NOT THE SAME as one lost sale). Or take into consideration of things like iTunes and Amazon?
I don't believe there is any direct relation between the number of downloads and the number of CD's bought. No, its more of a matter of WHICH albums are purchased. Like the above poster said, people will avoid buying crappy CD's! That doesn't stop them from buying CDs at all. I still buy just as many CD's as I used to. I can't afford to buy ALL the CD's I've downloaded, at one time, so I'm slowly collecting them.
A major advantage of piracy for artists is that you come across bands you never would have heard otherwise. It's unbelievable how many bands I like now, 70% of them never get radio time. This is why many bands come close to supporting piracy. The only ones that don't are the uneducated and the rich. And I probably don't listen to them anyway, they don't have to worry about me downloading their albums, I'd pay them to keep the damn things.
Educate yourself about the kind of "contracts" that record companies enforce on them, and you'll understand why I have little sympathy for them.
I understand that 83% of all statistics are made up. (I make that statement 20% of the time)
I understand that 83% of all statistics are made up. (I make that statement 20% of the time)
people can come up with statistics to prove anything. forfty percent of all people know that
They helped out the music community, my musically knowledge has increased vastly because of sites like Oink, the oinkplus scripts were great in finding similar artists and expanding your tastes in music.
I have since moved to other sites, and continue to find out about new groups and artists via p2p ... i have be going to more concerts/shows/venues than ever before, many of these groups i would not have found or liked without first being able to preview their music on sites like these...
say what you will, but some piracy does help to promote music
Downloading music for free ANYWHERE != Piracy
Not in Canada. Downloading for personal use is not illegal up here.
!= means "not equal"
...or probably just a misread.
I don't agree with the statement.
Both comments are true. While it is perfectly legal to download music for personal use here in Canada, distribution of copyrighted music is not
1. People who migrated their collections over to CDs from vinyl had finished.
2. Young people had less disposable income at the time.
3. Most music was/is crap.....
Piracy does boost CD sales. I know it does, because it makes me buy CDs all the time.
here in Mexico an imported album from US sells in about $22 dollars. the minimum income here is like $5 dollars a day. go figure. i wonder why they cant drop the prices and stop sending bands to record over studios all around the world and cut the costs a little.
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