File-Sharing No Threat to Music Sales


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Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry's assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line.

Those two economists at Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill have done the research and the math on how much CD sales are actually hurt by P2P sharing. The answer: A whopping one CD per 5,000 files downloaded.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/w...34300_2004mar29

//edit: posted on the front page.. I'm blind :pinch:

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