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Piracy Figures Out of Proportion? |
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Written by Rodney Reynolds
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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"Some numbers might prove that piracy hasn't been as bad for the Recording Industry as the RIAA would have you think. While it's not up to me to dispute the legality of pirating music or other copyrighted materials, I feel obligated to take a look at some numbers just to be sure that the initial outbreak of music piracy early in this millennium wasn't such a bad thing in the long run. While over the past half-decade or so music sales in the U.S. have raised and declined, the change over the years has been relatively insignificant. Also many sound theories revolve around exposure, things like file sharing have exposed masses to music they may not have otherwise have heard and in the hay-day of Napster the RIAA's sales went up, rather than down. It should also be noted that the recording industry is not only selling on a physical medium any longer, due, in part, to piracy methods, but in a digital medium in which music is sold in far greater amounts than previously feasible. Despite this trend of exposure and increase in digital sales, the likes of the RIAA and other intellectual property owners, claiming a loss as a result of piracy fail to report how they figured out how much they've actually lost. " ~pcmech.com
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