Comments on: IFPI: P2P Does Not Increase Music Sales

By: STUDY: Artists Earn More in P2P World

STUDY: Artists Earn More in P2P World — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:46:29 +0000

[...] of the more recent was the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stand against a UK Digital Music Survey which found that two-thirds of those who illegally download music [...]

By: @TheHuxCapacitor

@TheHuxCapacitor — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:04:59 +0000

Hmmm, Couple of things for me - There's no causal relationship proven in the study between P2P and decline in sales. Also, the 80's/90's phenomenon of making millions from CD sales is merely a blip. Actually, just have a shufty at this video. [youtube ix4BHHWTdqA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4BHHWTdqA youtube]

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:05:53 +0000

Actually no. See this > http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/soulxtc/ip... (From http://www.zeropaid.com/news/10021/study_p2p_stil... In fact, in some places, like Eastern Europe for example, BitTorrent accounts for over 80% of overall P2P traffic! DC is only 17.9%. As for artists not getting chances, how about the Harvard study that found the number of albums produced since 2000 has doubled? http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86468/harvard-study-... Artists have the Internet to distribute their work if labels are scared.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:05:53 +0000

By: D.AN

D.AN — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:37:24 +0000

malgre, we don’t care about what you think, so we also don’t need your life story in speculative form.

By: D.AN

D.AN — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:32:41 +0000

“… it just suggests SOME SORT of link between file sharing and music sales.”

IFPI and related industries also suggest “SOME SORT of link between file sharing and music sales”. So much for your ability to distinguish details.

“… that people who download lots of music are bigger music fans, and therefore are more likely to buy”

If that were to hold for all users, then there are effectively no losses of sales due to P2P, since those users would spend their money on music anyway, and the hysteria that the industries promote is nonexistent.

By: malcolm hume

malcolm hume — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:57:55 +0000

The times are getting shorter though, used to be forever before a video release and now it's a couple of months. So maybe someday you'll get what you want. Personally I don't care, becasue there's always something I missed and the only reason I want to see things first is because other people like to tell me what happens before I see it. But in the end I get all the entertainment I want, whether it's now or later, I get it all.

maybe you guys could increase comment length? I know that was pretty long winded but jared you seem to be able to still post long responses.

By: malcolm hume

malcolm hume — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:56:53 +0000

The whole release schedule thing is annoying, but it helps them pay for the movies and minimize the risk. Most of the movies I seem to like (I like mainstream movies, not art stuff) seem to cost at least a hundred million dollars to make. That is a shit ton of money. So they stagger the releases so they can make as much at theater as they can, then dvd, then pay per view, and a lot of it has to do with how much of a cut they take home after each thing… a theatrical release gets all kids of promotion and people notice it more, direct to video never makes as much, etc.. So while I agree it's annoying I understand. They also don't want to piss off theater woners who are really important to their business, and video store owners etc, so blame them just as much. It's complicated.

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By: malcolm hume

malcolm hume — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:56:36 +0000

They're not trying to stop piracy altogether. They know there's a few people who will go to the trouble to do it no matter what.

"The only people who get caught are the millions of lazy people who download and fire up old school DC apps like KaZaA"

That's MOST of the music business – the people that only spend fifty or sixty dollars a year. Meanwhile, that money went to do two things – give new acts a chance to make it big by putting them in front of the publc in a big way and it also went to support weird artists that never made much money. Those are the two things that get cut out when the 'lazy people' don't buy music any more.

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By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:01:34 +0000

Well, they are right, the survey in question doesn't really prove anything….it just suggests SOME SORT of link between file sharing and music sales. For all we know, that link could be that people who download lots of music are bigger music fans, and therefore are more likely to buy