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Filesharing and Music Sales � Scientifically Examinated
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http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/Fil..._March2004.pdf
A longstanding economic question is the appropriate level of protection for intellectual property. The Internet has drastically lowered the cost of copying information goods and provides a natural crucible to assess the implications of reduced protection. We consider the specific case of file sharing and its effect on the legal sales of music. A dataset containing 0.01% of the world�s downloads is matched to U.S. sales data for a large number of albums. To establish causality, downloads are instrumented using technical features related to file sharing, such as network congestion or song length, as well as international school holidays. Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates. Moreover, these estimates are of moderate economic significance and are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the recent decline in music sales.
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amusing. the music bastards must be annoyed.
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Originally posted by Developer:
... inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the recent decline in music sales.
Duh. Crappy music is the primary reason for the decline in music sales.
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Yup, totally. When I read it, my first thought was "Duh!" as well.
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Yep now people can download a few tracks from an album, then say "I ain't paying for this crap", before they would have had to have bought it, then realised it was crap.
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Well, I never bought tons of CDs, before or after filesharing. But I'd say that I actually buy slightly more CDs now, though, since I preview stuff I like, and if I really like it, then I want a pristine copy, and tracks that are often too obscure to land on the networks.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Well, I never bought tons of CDs, before or after filesharing. But I'd say that I actually buy slightly more CDs now, though, since I preview stuff I like, and if I really like it, then I want a pristine copy, and tracks that are often too obscure to land on the networks.
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same here, i used napster mostly for previewing albums before i bought so i could have a perfect copy of the song. now i use itunes for previewing, no more file-sharing at all.
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For me, previewing a song means listening to it in its entirety more than once and seeing if I still like it after a week. A lot of songs' appeal wears off very fast. I buy music I know I'm going to listen to many times, for a long time.
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Downloading music allowed me to stop listening to music on the radio that I didn't really like, and introduced me to indie rock, which I really like.
CDs purchased per year before downloading: 1 or 2
CDs purchased per month after downloading: 4 or 5
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Haha, I just read the title of this thread carefully... "examinate"!
That's not a word, in fact... the verb is "examine", and from that, the noun "examination" was formed.
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P.S. Random linguistics lesson of the day: the process of taking a word and re-creating a root (be it the original one or not) is called "back-formation".
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Haha, very funny.
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