Re: [SLUG] File Sharing vs CD Sales

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 22:52:46 EDT


> There was an item in Trib today that might be of some interest.
> According to a working paper from an associate professor of economics at
> UNC, the rise in peer-to-peer file sharing has had no statistically
> significant effect on the sales of CDs. I'm sure the RIAA will drop all
> their lawsuits right away, now that this data is out. ;-}
>
> The site is http://www.unc.edu/~cigar and then click on the "Working
> Papers" link on the upper left.

There was a study that came out not long after the first (Napster) p2p
wave that showed there had actually been a significant *increase* in sales
that coincided with the filesharing boom. Sadly, I have no links.
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