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[ NNSquad ] European Commission's Joint Research Centre - No evidence music piracy displaces digital music sales
European Commission's Joint Research Centre - No evidence music piracy
displaces digital music sales
http://j.mp/ZoNEAy (ftp.jrc.es [PDF])
"Perhaps surprisingly, our results present no evidence of digital
music sales displacement. While we find important cross country
differences in the effects of downloading on music purchases, our
findings suggest a rather small complementarity between these two
music consumption channels. It seems that the majority of the
music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample
would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites
were not available to them. The complementarity effect of online
streaming is found to be somewhat larger, suggesting a
stimulating effect of this activity on the sales of digital
music."
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As I've been saying for ages -- it's insane to assume that every
pirated copy of music (or video) represents a lost sale. The vast
majority are opportunistic copies that would never have been purchased
even if it weren't possible to obtain illicit copies.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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