Fairly Symmetrical
You think?
08/29/2003
08:57 AM by Eric: You think?
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Filesharing and DRM
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p2pnet.net | news | RIAA sue 'em war results in sales losses:
The RIAA's sue 'em all campaign has resulted in a 22% drop in file sharing, but at the same time, CD sales have plummeted by 9.4% and, "Specifically, curtailing file trading may not improve CD sales, but instead may accelerate their decline."
Golly, who'd have thunk that suing your own customers would actually have negative repercussions?
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The thing of it is, if I were to download more than three tracks off of an album I would buy it. Three tracks would prove I liked the CD enough to own the rest of it. Even if it was a goofy CD for me to run to. I don't feel any compulsion to buy untested CD's, I also wouldn't feel the personal guilt of taking from the artists that used to motivate me to buy the CD. (And yeah, I know, you can listen to thirty second samples for free, a big woo hoo to that). Now I just listen to the stuff I already have.
Update your damn webpage. I know you don't have anything better to do. :)