P2P has no effect on legal music sales says study
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.Entitled “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” the study matched an extensive sample of music downloads to American music sales data in order to search for causality between illicit downloading and album sales. Analyzing data from the final four months of 2002, the researchers estimated that P2P affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe.
Causality. Felix Oberholzer-Gee. Strumpf. It’s official then. Full story at Ars Technica. The Journal of Political Economy. (via Irish Eyes.)
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Yay, Lara Croft in Ireland!
Feshti's back and this time he's counting down the top 10 movie opening scenes of all time.
Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
It certainly has had no effect on my “legal music sales”. I tend to download artists that I’m not sure of, but if I like the music I prefer to have the cd.
Comment by Fence — February 13, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
What I already knew about my own downloading, confirmed about everyone else.
Comment by neil — February 13, 2007 @ 6:00 pm