[opendtv] Re: News: STUDY SHOWS DOWNLOADERS BUY SONGS TOO
- From: Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:12:53 -0700
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 08:11 -0400, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> This is not the first study to show that people who illegally
> download music BUY more music.
People illegally download music because they are *fans*. Getting illegal
music involves (slightly) more work than walking to a store and buying
an album.
I find it interesting that no statistics are done as to who is
downloading the 'store' copy of an album vs. who is downloading hard to
find tracks recorded at live concerts and so forth - i.e. things
unavailable in stores. What percentage of the fans are pure pirates, and
what percentage are out there to round out their legal collection with
material that will never be published?
> This battle is NOT about piracy. It is about maintaining control of
> the music distribution business. Fortunately the big music
> conglomerates are losing.
The sooner the better. There is nothing they can do (save for
underhanded tactics... but that is no different from normal day to day
business) against the likes of Creative Commons music licensing and the
free music / Open music initiatives that are popping up. Its a pity
things like mp3.com got smacked down - there was a lot of music on there
that is streets above the marketed hyped-up one-hit-wonder rubbish that
is sold as the 'top 100' (which itself is irrelevant these days) in the
stores.
Cheers
Kon
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