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Pirates Rejoice! - Research Shows That Filesharing is Not Hurting CD Sales
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Har Mateys!!! Music downloaders around the world can rejoice at the discovery that downloading music has little to no impact on CD sales. Of course, as one commenter from Techdirt points out: “The main problem is that no matter what happens to CD sales, it still fits the RIAA’s delusions. If sales decrease, it’s because of piracy… we need more DRM and lawsuits...if sales increase, it’s because of DRM fighting piracy, so we need more DRM and lawsuits… So, no matter what happens, it fits their model, and we get more DRM and lawsuits.”
Even so, it’s music to many downloaders ears who are content to win this battle in the ongoing music war.
Papa Fox writes in to point to the latest economics study on the impact of file sharing on CD sales. It's done by two economists, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Stumpf (rather than the RIAA studies, which are all done by companies hired by the RIAA and whose statistical methodology always has huge holes -- such as counting downloads automatically as "lost sales" or simply getting basic math and economics wrong). This latest study, with help from a bunch of extremely well-known and well-respected economists (including the guy who first taught me economics), found that "downloads have an effect on sales that is statistically indistinguishable from zero."
(techdirt)
Read More: hypnozebra Via: techdirt
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