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do admire your persistence in your cause, but I doubt it's going to succeed. I still recommend a better source than a blog written by a newly hatched media lawyer hoping to make a few bucks working for the media companies.
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Its kind of unimportant who the aggregator is( so far as I know, the guy who wrote the Teleread post has NO legal, economics or business training. THat doesn't mean that we should dismiss any source he quotes out of hand.
The key fact is that the majority of independent academic studies conclude that piracy causes significant harm, even if they disagree as to how to measure the harm or what the remedy should be. That alone should explode the myth that there is no evidencethat piracy causes no harm.Both the US government and the courts also agree, justto pile on.
Don't like Copyhpe? How about this guy?
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Who Am I?
I realize that some of you may not know much about me or even who I am. I like to think that I am uniquely qualified as an artist, entrepreneur and geek. I was trained as a mathematician. My first job after I graduated involved being the systems operator for an MPM OS system and I wrote a lot of DBASE IV scripts. I had a fascination with the old RPG punch card programming language. I am deeply involved in the digital amateur radio world. You can sometimes find me operating PSK31 on 20 meters. I spent some time in Chicago near the CME. I worked as a “Quant” doing some semi high frequency trading. While there I became involved with a company called www.thepoint.com which evolved into www.groupon.com.
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So please forgive us if we roll our eyes at the Digerati who tell us we need to “embrace the web”, “work the new digital ecosystem” or come up with a “new model”. It’s a little like your great aunt seeing you at thanksgiving dinner and telling you something like:
“You should make some T-shirts for your band and sell them on tour”.
You politely smile and try not to roll your eyes.
Actually that’s the number one “new model” that the Digerati suggest. Sell T-shirts at your shows to make money! This despite the fact it’s not new. Bands have been selling t-shirts at live shows since the early 1970s. Recording albums to sell a few t-shirts is a terrible way to make money. Thanks for the advice but no thanks. Plus t-shirts are just as bootlegable as music.
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RTWT. Its long but good. He's an independent musician, sohe has a lot more street crred than you or me.
AAAAAAAAAND this guy, who is not only an independent musician, but a trained economist:
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Needless to say that the economic effect of illegal file-sharing is depressing the market price of recordings towards zero. Zero price means zero revenue. Even if by some miracle of chance your recordings gain widespread exposure through file-sharing, their value as a revenue stream will be minimal. This isn’t the place to consider alternative income streams, but a look through my previous posts will give some idea of the problems involved.
Funnily enough, Bruce managed to stand the whole issue on its head: the way to assure yourself a price-based competitive advantage is to eliminate illegal file-sharing. Only then can you be fairly certain that major label releases will be offered at non-zero prices (probably fairly high) and you can try to gain exposure through lower pricing (which is easier for an independent artist, who has lower overheads and probably has made less of an investment).
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Try those guys on for now. There's more.