March 29, 2005
Downloads not hurting...
Boing Boing cited a recent study listed on Copyfight stating that
"...P2P studies say that it's not hurting music"
Shocker. I rarely if ever download any music anymore, but the one thing that Tara and I have come to realize is that in the last 5 years we have purchased far more music now that we ever have in our entire lives. Why is that? It's because we are exposed to music that we would not have normally purchased, listened to, or from a radio station that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
(The music I do download will be the subject of another post soon)
Instead (as cited in the article and by Cory) there is no impact on the music superstars and their ability to buy gold encrusted Bentleys. The current music empires are using what government has been pimping to us for years. Putting the world in a state of fear over the acceptance of new technology as a problem instead of an opportunity to create new business models and practices.
For a great presentation on how this type of fear and objection to technology has been ongoing since the days when Tesla created the radio and then Marconi stole the radio, listen to Cory Doctorow's speech at Web 2.0 (from my new favorite site IT Conversations - post forthcoming)