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LifestreamAnd speaking of Reuters, here is a good one. Reuters: New study says file sharing does not cut CD sales
“We find that file sharing has only had a limited effect on record sales,” Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said in their report.
“The economic effect is also small. Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale,” they wrote.
The Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the music industry, was quick to denounce the report’s conclusions.
“Countless well-respected groups and analysts, including Edison Research, Forrester, the University of Texas, among others, have all determined that illegal file sharing has adversely impacted the sales of CDs,” RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss said in a statement.
I wonder why it is always fuckheads like Amy Weiss that get such positions. Where do all the decent and honest people go anyway. Probably holding on to real and honest jobs. I think it is time for someone to teach the RIAA a lesson in fear and viciousness. Show them that the resistance that they’re up against is much more lethal and ideologically determined than the bunch of pimply fourteen year olds, grandmas and gutless geeks that they’ve preyed on thus far. Make them crap in their pants.
As a would-be psychologist I do not enjoy inflicting fear and threats of trauma. But I’m not one of those “turn the other cheek” type of people either. I can fight in whatever gory field I have to. I will never let knowledge be my weakness.
