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Have you got concrete fact that illegal downloads cut profits?
by newaccountfool 12y ago
Have you got concrete fact that illegal downloads cut profits?
- nostromo 12y agoYou know I don't. And I know you don't either. Unless we can run a study whereby some portion of the population is entered into a control group and doesn't have access to the internet, it'll remain a question about interpreting data and not of fact.
- newaccountfool 12y agoSo your statement was just a guess, just checking. I don't know the data from the record companies because I wouldn't bother reading it for fear of bias, I just know that a lot of the 'anti piracy' groups never actually put money back into the music industry, its just more money to fund more lawsuits.
- GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago> I wouldn't bother reading it for fear of bias That's a dangerous stance in general, probably better to listen to both sides whilst acknowledging that they are both likely to be biased in their own favour.
- newaccountfool 12y agoYeah true, I just know MPAA and RIAA have been know to publish information that is later found out to be false.
- kllrnohj 12y agoA study like this one? That found that illegal downloading INCREASED sales, not decreased? http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/study-confirms-illegal-downloads-increase-music-sales/ http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/study-confirms-illegal-downloa...
- Jgrubb 12y agoI have no concrete facts, but my intuition tells me that commodity CD-Rs played as big a role. I think that whole line about illegal downloads is industry propaganda. You never hear about how illegally burned CDs brought down the industry, when everybody I know was ripping CDs from each other for a period of years. Why? Because record labels' parent companies were the ones selling CD burners hand over fist.