Comments on: STUDY: Pirated Music on P2P Networks Valued at $69 Billion in 2007

By: kokanezub

kokanezub — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

its time for a change. no one wants to buy a cd anymore if p2p did not happen then people still would find a way to get bootleg music. $20 an album is to much

By: VAMPYRE BLADE

VAMPYRE BLADE — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Theses numbers are always based on the same old idea that people would of bought the music if they couldnt get it for free. You can also look at it like this if the music is being shared that means someone bought it in the first place or they couldnt share it. Those huge numbers are scare tactics.

By: open_universe

open_universe — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Vampyre Blade you beat me to it. If one couldn’t download view on YouTube etc. 99% of us wouldn’t go near a store to buy even a single track. Everyone needs to face facts the paradigm has changed it’s up to the industry and the artists to change with it.

By: manakazero

manakazero — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

One illegal download does not equal one lost sale. They don’t seem to grasp this idea.

By: barbanza

barbanza — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I don’t download music and I don’t buy it either if I want to listen to music I listen to the radio on the internet.
It is to expansive to buy a cd so the radio would do I think their numbers are an exgeration.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Funny considering Vivendi bought out Universal for something like 2.8 billion which owned something like 25% of the market. So what they are essentially saying is that the value of shared music is greater than the collective overall value of the companies loosing the money.

By: World Anarchy

World Anarchy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Proves what we already know: P2P is a great form of wealth creation.

By: walkerofdoom

walkerofdoom — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Nobody wants to buy a 20 to 30 dollar cd that they would listen to for a few weeks and get tired of it it is definitely a scare tactic they are using I don’t see the music industry going bankrupt anytime soon…