Can digital sharing sell music?
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keithold thanks all baggers
ANSWERS: 3
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There are two schools of thought on that: No: "The recording industry has been fighting to prove that even the premise of "making available," putting music out there to share with no proof it's ever been downloaded, is still a violation of copyright laws, and that all the digital sharing results in nothing but losses for the music industry." http://www.profy.com/2008/04/10/can-digital-music-sharing-sell-music/ Yes: "The Web 2.0 music sites beg to disagree. Last.fm, which just launched its free version in January, claims that music sales have climbed 119% for its partners, with users purchasing 66% more albums and singles than they did before launching the free service, with the amount of time users spend on the site increasing as well (188%). iLike saw similar results quantified for them back in February with a release of a study from The Wharton School that showed that long-term iLIke users added almost 250% more music per month to their libraries." http://www.profy.com/2008/04/10/can-digital-music-sharing-sell-music/
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Yes. There are many albums I would haven't actually bought if I hadn't downloaded them illegally first. Not to mention all the shows I've been to and band shirts I bought as well.
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Yes, it's a fact from recent studies (see TROLLS post) that open sharing encourages people to buy albums. Also, recently Nine Inch Nails released their instrumental "ghosts 1-4" volumes. They released them for FREE online, AND gave a physical option ranging from a $5 physical copy, to a $375 deluxe option. Within THREE days of it going on sale, not only were there hundreds of thousands of downloads, but also ALL the deluxe copies had been sold out, as well as a huge amount of physical copies. The band had released it independently, and raked in over ONE MILLION dollars within 3 days. Read that again, without any label help, they raked in one million dollars while offering free downloads of their music. If that doesn't show the power of p2p, I don't know what does.
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