We knew P2P don't harm CD sales...

Posted by: bonzi

We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 09:04

... but now there's a study to back that:

From BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow's weblog:
Koleman Strumpf, a conservative, Cato-affiliated economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has just co-authored a paper on the effects of file-sharing on album sales, based on the first-ever empirical data analysis in the field.

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Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale...high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 09:17

I'm not saying you or the article are wrong, but
a conservative ... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: boxer

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 09:21

So file sharing has nothing to do with this then
Posted by: Dignan

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 09:43

So file sharing has nothing to do with this then
Are you being sarcastic?

And Bitt, if it makes you fell better I think the study was done in cooperation with Harvard TechTV reported on this last night.
Posted by: mtempsch

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 10:44

Interesting data point from Australia...

/Michael
Posted by: bonzi

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 11:14

a conservative ... at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.
I wouldn't know about that. All I know about US university politics was gathered from sources like The Strawberry Statement or Zabriskie Point, which cannot be accused of being recent, complete, unbiased or generally relevant.
Posted by: wfaulk

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 13:13

UNC-CH is one of the oldest (and my be the oldest) public (meaning government-funded) college in the US. It's mostly known as a liberal arts school, and it's full of artsy-fartsy types. The idea of a conservative economist there just doesn't jibe with the image of the school. It's not really politics so much as image.
Posted by: ninti

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 31/03/2004 13:13

> So file sharing has nothing to do with this then

"[EMI] also said on Wednesday recorded music sales in the year to end-March 2004 held close to the previous year's levels..."

Nope, apparently not.
Posted by: mwest

Re: We knew P2P don't harm CD sales... - 01/04/2004 11:50

invokes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance.

Long live Leon Festinger... I didn't know anyone even knew who he was anymore.