On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:50:09 -0800 Asa Rossoff disseminated the following: > and weather p2p music sharing is good, bad, or immaterial to the recording > industry, I don't know. It's *certainly* good for _music_ itself, and > undoubtedly significantly increases distribution of music, particularly music > outside of the big-label-mainstream stuff.
I think the study leaves little in doubt about that, since it points out that other 'industries' have seen *increases* in revenue despite online filesharing of their product. I love this quote from a piece I just read by the General Counsel for the FSF: "The music company continues to take ninety-four percent of the gross for promoting and distributing music, and the twelve-year-olds who take zero off the top do a better job." Link: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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