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On Monday 19 April 2004 10:52 pm, Levi Bard wrote:
> > There was an item in Trib today that might be of some interest.
> > According to a working paper from an associate professor of economics
> > at UNC, the rise in peer-to-peer file sharing has had no statistically
> > significant effect on the sales of CDs. I'm sure the RIAA will drop all
> > their lawsuits right away, now that this data is out. ;-}
> >
> > The site is http://www.unc.edu/~cigar and then click on the "Working
> > Papers" link on the upper left.
>
> There was a study that came out not long after the first (Napster) p2p
> wave that showed there had actually been a significant *increase* in
> sales that coincided with the filesharing boom. Sadly, I have no links.
Yes, I saw this too. It went up and down with Napster.
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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