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Originally Posted by Alan
The revenue of the music industry is in a steady decline. Every year new lows are being reached. But at the same time music consumption does not drop, does not at all. In fact people today listen to much much more music than 10 years before, thanks to the abundance of mp3 players and other music devices such as cell phones and PDAs.
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And how is that relevant? And what evidence do you have for your theories?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
describes the study and says for example:
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Consumption of music increases dramatically with the introduction of file sharing, but not everybody who likes to listen to music was a music customer before, so it's very important to separate the two," said Felix Oberholzer-Gee, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and one of the authors of the study.
Oberholzer-Gee and his colleague, University of North Carolina's Koleman Strumpf, also said that their "most pessimistic" statistical model showed that illegal file sharing would have accounted for only 2 million fewer compact discs sales in 2002, whereas CD sales declined by 139 million units between 2000 and 2002.
"From a statistical point of view, what this means is that there is no effect between downloading and sales," said Oberholzer-Gee.
For albums that fail to sell well, the Internet may contribute to declining sales. Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf found that albums that sell to niche audiences suffer a "small negative effect" from Internet piracy.
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