More legal news today, as Salon.com is running an article about a research of the university of Dallas who has been studying file sharing and its influence on record sales. The researcher changed his mind several times and now thinks he has evidence that filesharing is hurting the music industry.
When we last spoke, you said you had yet to find proof of harm from MP3s. What's changed? |
The one big piece of evidence that I didn't have when we talked before was a half-year year 2002 number [that appears to indicate a 9.8 percent decrease in album sales.] There has to be a caveat in here, which is that I don't know if this number is correct. It's a half-year number that I saw in USA Today, from SoundScan.
If it were the case that there was a 9.8 percent drop on albums, when you look at the historical record of the ups and downs of the CD industry, [that's] a bigger decline than we've seen in 30 years. It starts to look unusual.
Unfortunately the researcher seems to have forgotten one big important issue, the DVD, and this new medium is selling more then ever. Read the entire story here and let us know what you think below !
Source: Salon.com
