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^^^everyones going to be so used to "SAVING" money... look at it like this ... people spend alot of time cutting out coupons from sundays news paper that save them about 75 cents on items.. what makes u think society wouldnt want to continue to save money buy getting there shit for free... torrent?? blogs, mirc, internet rap forums boxden , lime wire = alot of shelved albums and starving artists
it never used to be that way the ONLY SOURCE of MAJOR INCOME for an artist is in TOURING....there used to be several artist deals and perks/bonuses if an artist sold xxxxx amount of copies in record contracts... plus not only that you were able to negotiate a contract were you would earn more money back on every single record sold ... <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JOUKHd12UAo&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JOUKHd12UAo&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>truth be told all bull shit aside ^^^^^^ watch and pay attention
bootlegging + POOR records are working hand in hand in my opinion
no. just a little tiny bit http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf
Quote from: HD on December 27, 2007, 12:19:58 PMno. just a little tiny bit http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdfProps!
File Sharing Cannot Explain the Decline in Sales of Music during This Period Even in the professors most pessimistic statistical model, it takes 5,000 downloads to reduce the sales of an album by a single copy. If this worst-case scenario were true, file sharing would have reduced CD sales by 2 million copies in 2002. To provide a point of reference, CD sales actually declined by 139 million copies from 2000 to 2002. More Popular CDs Benefit from File Sharing The effect of file sharing on sales depends on the popularity of a release, according to the researchers. For the least popular albums (with sales of less than 36,000 copies) the authors found a small negative effect. In contrast, for the top 25 percent of albums (with sales of more than 600,000 copies) they found a positive effect: 150 downloads increase sales by one copy. This effect is particularly important because the profitability of the music industry depends almost entirely on the success of the most popular albums.