This really isn’t news, it’s just confirmation of what all the other studies have shown but, yet another study has shown that on balance the music and film industries have benefited from online file sharing. The London School of Economics found that music sales have stagnated but overall revenues remain strong with revenues reaching $60…
European Commission: Online Music Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Sales
This isn’t really much of a surprise but a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre says that online piracy isn’t hurting music sales: Via Torrentfreak: “A new study by The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, which is part of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, tackled this question in a unique way. With data from…
European Commission: Online Music Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Sales
This isn’t really much of a surprise but a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre says that online piracy isn’t hurting music sales: Via Torrentfreak: “A new study by The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, which is part of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, tackled this question in a unique way. With data from…
The Key to Media Profitability is Respect
I talk to alot of people in various media. Most of them don’t really care about file sharing one way or another. The thing I’ve found, with music, is that most of the people I know buy alot of CDs (physical or digital) from artists that they like because they respect the artists and they…
Ding Dong The Witch is Dead
Which old witch? How about RIAA lawsuits over Peer to Peer file sharing. From the Wall Street Journal via Michael Geist comes word that the RIAA, which has sued more than 35,000 people since 2003 has decided to abandon it’s strategy of suing their best customers. This doesn’t mean that they are gone, or that…
American Music Industry Gets Even Dumber
Have you been, like most reasonable people, amazed and astounded at all of the music industry lawsuits in the U.S.? Did you find them a trifle unfair? Did you, for example, think that it was absurd that a single mother in Minnesota was ordered to pay $222,000 for 24 ‘illegal’ songs on her hard drive?…