From: rob.mcintyreNOSPAMPLEASE@sympatico.ca   
      
   "Loogie"  wrote in message   
   news:c4renl$2jt5d7$1@ID-78124.news.uni-berlin.de...   
   > This posting of your is blatantly misleading. Check the facts before you   
   > spew your garbage on here.   
   >   
   > Fact is Felix Oberholzer of the Harvard Business School and Koleman Strump   
   > of UNC Chapel Hill have done extensive research into the file sharing   
   > business. In a nutshell CD sales have not been adversely affected by file   
   > sharing. In fact just the opposite.   
   >   
   > The major reason for the decline of CD sales is that most of the so-called   
   > baby boomers - the ones with all of the disposable income have completed   
   > replacing their vinyl and cassette collections. This caused a spike in CD   
   > sales which have now settled down to what would be deemed normal levels.   
   >   
   > The recording industry has made their biased statements as it is   
   > self-serving. Look at you you represent music buying as well. So you are   
   > slanted in your opinion. Too bad you are wrong. All that you do is create   
   > negativity.   
   >   
   > So while sit back and download one hundred new songs I will head to the   
   > store and pick up a CD...maybe a pack or two of blanks too...hmm your   
   > industry gets a cut of that so 'quit yer whinin'   
   >   
   > L   
      
   Perhaps you should have visited my site and read my articles on the subject   
   prior to posting your rant.   
      
   P2P is not entirely to blame for lost CD sales and this is supported by many   
   studies including a few by Massachusetts based Forester Research.   
      
   As you've mentioned, the slump in sales can be partially attributed to a   
   reduction in sales to individuals who were upgrading their collection.   
   Another cause was a slump in the American economy but one of the major   
   causes was the lack of material for the majority of consumers, over the age   
   of 25 ; Labels have been diverting funds from their classical, jazz, easy   
   listening and even their rock acts to pop acts they believe will result in   
   faster, larger profits. They haven't been signing many artists from the   
   above mentioned genres either, this resulting in a significant reduction of   
   new material for the majority of their consumers.   
      
   A large portion of P2P users are basically using the network to preview   
   music and the studies support it. But something should be done to keep the   
   real pirates out of the system, the real pirates being those that don't pay   
   for music that they keep. Yes, the majors could absorb some of their losses   
   but the artists, songwriters, lyricists, etc can't.   
      
   This is why I prefer a P2P system on which time limited downloads could be   
   found, along with indie recordings that aren't time limited. I think we're   
   heading that way but we'll probably need to get over a few bumps on the way   
   to such a system.   
      
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